[pypy-commit] pypy default: tweaks
arigo
pypy.commits at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 06:45:39 EST 2017
Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch:
Changeset: r90361:d696e7a41931
Date: 2017-02-26 12:44 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/d696e7a41931/
Log: tweaks
diff --git a/pypy/doc/faq.rst b/pypy/doc/faq.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/faq.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/faq.rst
@@ -170,15 +170,15 @@
(i.e. the Python programmer).
CPython has additionally the problem (1) of reference counting. With
-PyPy, the problem is simpler: we need to make our GC multithread-aware.
-This is easier to do efficiently in PyPy than in CPython. It doesn't
-solve the issue (2), though.
+PyPy, this sub-problem is simpler: we need to make our GC
+multithread-aware. This is easier to do efficiently in PyPy than in
+CPython. It doesn't solve the issue (2), though.
Note that since 2012 there is work going on on a still very experimental
-:doc:`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. This work is currently a bit stalled because of its own
+:doc:`Software Transactional Memory <stm>` (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. This work is currently a bit stalled because of its own
technical difficulties.
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