[pypy-commit] pypy default: Mention it as a bug
arigo
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Tue Mar 17 19:11:51 CET 2015
Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch:
Changeset: r76437:cb01edcb5941
Date: 2015-03-17 19:11 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/cb01edcb5941/
Log: Mention it as a bug
diff --git a/pypy/doc/stm.rst b/pypy/doc/stm.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/stm.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/stm.rst
@@ -130,7 +130,11 @@
* Weakrefs might appear to work a bit strangely for now, sometimes
staying alive throught ``gc.collect()``, or even dying but then
- un-dying for a short time before dying again.
+ un-dying for a short time before dying again. A similar problem can
+ show up occasionally elsewhere with accesses to some external
+ resources, where the (apparent) serialized order doesn't match the
+ underlying (multithreading) order. These are bugs (partially fixed
+ already in ``stmgc-c8``).
* The STM system is based on very efficient read/write barriers, which
are mostly done (their placement could be improved a bit in
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