Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r5095:92b901261eb1 Date: 2013-10-16 17:29 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/92b901261eb1/
Log: Minor rewordings. diff --git a/blog/draft/stm-oct2013.rst b/blog/draft/stm-oct2013.rst --- a/blog/draft/stm-oct2013.rst +++ b/blog/draft/stm-oct2013.rst @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ a chance of small errors. There are still many such performance issues of various complexity left -to tackle. So stay tuned or contribute :) +to tackle: we are nowhere near done. So stay tuned or contribute :) Performance ----------- @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ **Richards** from `PyPy repository on the stmgc-c4 branch <https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/commits/branch/stmgc-c4>`_: -Average time per iteration in milliseconds using 8 threads: +Average time per iteration in milliseconds: +-------------+----------------------+---------------------+ | Interpreter | Base time: 1 thread | 8 threads (speedup) | @@ -76,11 +76,12 @@ All this can be found in the `PyPy repository on the stmgc-c4 branch <https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/commits/branch/stmgc-c4>`_. Try it for yourself, but keep in mind that this is still experimental -with a lot of things yet to come. +with a lot of things yet to come. Only Linux x64 is supported right +now, but contributions are welcome. -You can also download a prebuilt binary from here: +You can download a prebuilt binary from here: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads/pypy-oct13-stm.tar.bz2 -(Linux x64 only for now, Ubuntu >= 12.04) +(Linux x64 Ubuntu >= 12.04). Summary ------- @@ -89,10 +90,10 @@ the only of the three interpreters where multithreading gives a large improvement in speed. What they also tell us is that, obviously, the result is not good enough *yet:* it still takes longer on a 8-threaded -PyPy-STM than on a regular single-threaded PyPy-2.1. As you should know -by now, we are good at promising speed and delivering it years later. -It has been two years already since PyPy-STM started, so we're in the -fast-progressing step right now :-) +PyPy-STM than on a regular single-threaded PyPy-2.1. However, as you +should know by now, we are good at promising speed and delivering it... +years later ``:-)`` But it has been two years already since PyPy-STM +started, and things look good now. Expect major improvements soon. Cheers _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
