Who contributed to Elixir & Phoenix on August 16, 2026?

2 developers shipped this update, including Thomas Cioppettini and LostKobrakai.

What were the notable Elixir & Phoenix updates?

perf: Remove unused length computation in List.myers_difference (#15753), perf: Avoid intermediate charlist in String.downcase/upcase with :ascii, and perf: Add accumulator free fast paths to Macro.prewalk/2 and postwalk/2.

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ELIXIR CORE CUTS ALLOCATIONS ACROSS STRING AND AST OPERATIONS

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:59 UTC on August 16, 2026 · About Elixir & Phoenix

2 people shipped this

Thomas Cioppettini @tomciopp 4 cited

LostKobrakai @LostKobrakai 1 cited

Thomas Cioppettini landed four performance wins overnight that eliminate unnecessary allocations in List.myers_difference, String case conversion, and Macro tree walkers.

The most immediate win ships in List.myers_difference [1], which removed a length computation that was firing on every call. But the bigger story is String.downcase and String.upcase with :ascii flag [2], which were building one cons cell per input byte only to flatten it back to binary. The fix scans without allocating on the first pass, cutting overhead dramatically on the dominant real-world case: URI schemes and HTTP headers that are already in target case. Macro.prewalk and postwalk get dedicated fast paths [3] that bypass wrapper closures and tuple allocations, preserving exact traversal semantics while cutting per-node overhead. Separately, Range.disjoint?/2 [4] now handles ranges beyond float precision correctly. On the Ecto side, embedded_load and embedded_dump now accept loader/dumper arguments [5], letting custom types like MapOf specify their own format without hardcoding :json.

Action items

→ Pull String performance fixes into your branch if you process headers or URIs at scale elixir-lang/elixir [plan]
→ Review the Macro walker changes if you do AST inspection in compile-time code elixir-lang/elixir [monitor]
→ Evaluate Ecto's new loader/dumper argument if you build custom embedded types elixir-ecto/ecto [monitor]

References

[1] perf: Remove unused length computation in List.myers_difference (#15753) elixir-lang/elixir
[2] perf: Avoid intermediate charlist in String.downcase/upcase with :ascii ↗ elixir-lang/elixir
[3] perf: Add accumulator free fast paths to Macro.prewalk/2 and postwalk/2 ↗ elixir-lang/elixir
[4] fix: Range.disjoint?/2 for ranges beyond float precision (#15760) elixir-lang/elixir
[5] Allow loader/dumper be passed through Ecto.embedded_load / Ecto.embedded_dump ↗ elixir-ecto/ecto

Quick answers

What shipped in Elixir & Phoenix on August 16, 2026?: Thomas Cioppettini landed four performance wins overnight that eliminate unnecessary allocations in List.myers_difference, String case conversion, and Macro tree walkers. In total, 7 commits and 10 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Elixir & Phoenix on August 16, 2026?: 2 developers shipped this update, including Thomas Cioppettini and LostKobrakai.
What were the notable Elixir & Phoenix updates?: perf: Remove unused length computation in List.myers_difference (#15753), perf: Avoid intermediate charlist in String.downcase/upcase with :ascii, and perf: Add accumulator free fast paths to Macro.prewalk/2 and postwalk/2.

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