[pypy-commit] pypy stm-thread: A notice about the word "inevitable".

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Fri May 18 16:02:58 CEST 2012


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: stm-thread
Changeset: r55134:b421f37719c4
Date: 2012-05-18 16:02 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/b421f37719c4/

Log:	A notice about the word "inevitable".

diff --git a/pypy/doc/stm.rst b/pypy/doc/stm.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/stm.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/stm.rst
@@ -155,8 +155,10 @@
 enough in total.
 
 The other principle is that of avoiding long-running so-called
-"inevitable" transactions.  We can consider that a transaction can be in
-three possible modes (this is actually a slight simplification):
+"inevitable" transactions ("inevitable" is taken in the sense of "which
+cannot be avoided", i.e. transactions which cannot abort any more).  We
+can consider that a transaction can be in three possible modes (this is
+actually a slight simplification):
 
 * *non-atomic:* in this mode, the interpreter is free to insert
   transaction breaks more or less where it wants to.  This is similar to


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