Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r5351:d4f5afac3210
Date: 2014-06-18 11:22 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/d4f5afac3210/
Log: Two minor fixes (too late? never mind)
diff --git a/talk/icooolps2014/position-paper.tex
b/talk/icooolps2014/position-paper.tex
--- a/talk/icooolps2014/position-paper.tex
+++ b/talk/icooolps2014/position-paper.tex
@@ -194,7 +194,9 @@
multithreading in an interpreter. The basic guarantee is that the GIL
may only be released in between bytecode instructions\footnote{This
also applies to Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) interpreters, where the GIL
-may only be released between interpreting two AST nodes.}. The interpreter
+may only be released between interpreting two AST nodes. We talk about
+``bytecode instructions'' in a general way as a basic step in the
+interpreter.}. The interpreter
can thus rely on complete isolation and atomicity for the
instructions' execution. Also, accesses to data structures like
dictionaries and lists happen atomically and do not need additional
@@ -307,7 +309,8 @@
limitations:
\begin{description}
-\item[Performance:] How much does the approach impact performance on a single
+\item[Performance:] How much does the approach impact performance
+ on a single thread
and how much on multiple threads? Can it make use of parallelism?
\item[Existing applications:] How big are the changes required to
integrate with and parallelise existing applications?
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