Author: Remi Meier <remi.me...@inf.ethz.ch> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r5221:b88e3053f8a9 Date: 2014-05-02 13:46 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/b88e3053f8a9/
Log: minor changes 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 @@ -393,10 +393,11 @@ Unfortunately, STM has a big performance problem. Particularly, for our use case there is not much static information available since we are executing a program only known at runtime. Additionally, replacing -the GIL means running everything in transactions, so there is not much -code that can run outside and be optimized better. +the GIL means running every part of the application in transactions, +so there is not much code that can run outside and that can be +optimized better. The performance of the TM system is vital. -One way to get more performance is to make STM systems that make +One way to get more performance is to develop STM systems that make better use of low-level features in existing OS kernels. We are currently working on a STM system that makes use of several such features like virtual memory and memory segmentation. We further @@ -405,8 +406,8 @@ approach, initial results suggest that we can keep the overhead of STM below 50\%. A hybrid TM system, which also uses HTM to accelerate certain tasks, looks like a very promising direction of research -too. In general we believe that further work to reduce the overhead of -STM is very worthwhile. +too. We believe that further work to reduce the overhead of STM is +very worthwhile. _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
