[pypy-commit] pypy default: Update this FAQ entry
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Thu Aug 14 20:06:00 CEST 2014
Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
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Changeset: r72816:87622de1d682
Date: 2014-08-14 20:05 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/87622de1d682/
Log: Update this FAQ entry
diff --git a/pypy/doc/faq.rst b/pypy/doc/faq.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/faq.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/faq.rst
@@ -147,12 +147,12 @@
programmer).
Instead, since 2012, there is work going on on a still very experimental
-Software Transactional Memory (STM) version of PyPy. This should give
-an alternative PyPy which internally has no GIL, while at the same time
+`Software Transactional Memory`_ (STM) version of PyPy. This should give
+an alternative PyPy which works without a GIL, while at the same time
continuing to give the Python programmer the complete illusion of having
-one. It would in fact push forward *more* GIL-ish behavior, like
-declaring that some sections of the code should run without releasing
-the GIL in the middle (these are called *atomic sections* in STM).
+one.
+
+.. _`Software Transactional Memory`: stm.html
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