Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r72816:87622de1d682 Date: 2014-08-14 20:05 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/87622de1d682/
Log: Update this FAQ entry diff --git a/pypy/doc/faq.rst b/pypy/doc/faq.rst --- a/pypy/doc/faq.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/faq.rst @@ -147,12 +147,12 @@ programmer). Instead, since 2012, there is work going on on a still very experimental -Software Transactional Memory (STM) version of PyPy. This should give -an alternative PyPy which internally has no GIL, while at the same time +`Software Transactional Memory`_ (STM) version of PyPy. This should give +an alternative PyPy which works without a GIL, while at the same time continuing to give the Python programmer the complete illusion of having -one. It would in fact push forward *more* GIL-ish behavior, like -declaring that some sections of the code should run without releasing -the GIL in the middle (these are called *atomic sections* in STM). +one. + +.. _`Software Transactional Memory`: stm.html -------------------------------------------------- Is PyPy more clever than CPython about Tail Calls? _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
