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Normal brainfuck implementations rely on the use of arrays to store data and increment pointers. Given Erlang is a functional language and its usual array structures are relatively slow, this version relies on binaries and bit syntax. Binaries can be iterated through in linear time, but you can jump through them at any point in constant time. This makes binaries ideal for storing data as a tape and moving from cell to cell in one way or another, where standard lists would be inefficient.