Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r5225:90efb16ed5e7
Date: 2014-05-03 13:23 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/90efb16ed5e7/
Log: Precision
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
@@ -224,8 +224,10 @@
to avoid this issue.
In the end, fine-grained locking can transparently replace the GIL
-and therefore parallelise existing applications without any
-changes. It does however not provide a better synchronisation
+and therefore parallelise existing applications, generally without any
+changes\footnote{There are rare cases where not having atomic
+bytecodes actually changes the semantics.}
+It does however not provide a better synchronisation
mechanism to the application like e.g. atomic blocks.
%% - support of atomic blocks?\\
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