[pypy-svn] r72170 - pypy/extradoc/planning/1.2
arigo at codespeak.net
arigo at codespeak.net
Fri Mar 12 18:36:32 CET 2010
Author: arigo
Date: Fri Mar 12 18:36:30 2010
New Revision: 72170
Modified:
pypy/extradoc/planning/1.2/announcement.txt
Log:
Minor enhancements.
Modified: pypy/extradoc/planning/1.2/announcement.txt
==============================================================================
--- pypy/extradoc/planning/1.2/announcement.txt (original)
+++ pypy/extradoc/planning/1.2/announcement.txt Fri Mar 12 18:36:30 2010
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
We are pleased to announce `PyPy's 1.2 release`_.
This version 1.2 is a major milestone and it is the first release to ship
-a `Just in time compiler`_ that is known to be faster than CPython
+a **Just-in-Time compiler** that is known to be faster than CPython
(and unladen swallow) on some real-world applications (or the best benchmarks
we could get for them). The main theme for the 1.2 release is **speed**.
The JIT is stable and we don't observe crashes. Nevertheless we would
-recommend you to treat it as beta software and as a way to try the JIT out
+recommend you to treat it as beta software and as a way to try out the JIT
to see how it works for you.
Highlights:
@@ -37,17 +37,16 @@
the assembler can consume; it is thus possible (although unlikely) that
the assembler ends up using unreasonable amounts of memory.
-If you want to try PyPy, go to `download page`_ on our excellent new site
+If you want to try PyPy, go to the `download page`_ on our excellent new site
and find the binary for your platform. If the binary does not work (e.g. on
Linux, because of different versions of external .so dependencies), or if
your platform is not supported, you can `try building from the source`_.
-PyPy release team,
+The PyPy release team (working of course for the full PyPy team),
Armin Rigo, Maciej Fijalkowski and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
.. _`PyPy's 1.2 release`: http://pypy.org/
-.. _`Just in time compiler`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation
-.. _`new PyPy website`: http://pypy.org
+.. _`new PyPy website`: http://pypy.org/
.. _`various`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/03/hello.html
.. _`blog`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/01/nightly-graphs-of-pypys-performance.html
.. _`posts`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-benchmarking.html
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