[pypy-commit] pypy.org extradoc: * typos

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Tue Sep 20 16:54:53 CEST 2011


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r261:a8ec2b4e7fa6
Date: 2011-09-20 16:54 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy.org/changeset/a8ec2b4e7fa6/

Log:	* typos
	* add a few lines, feel free to remove

diff --git a/source/py3donate.rst b/source/py3donate.rst
--- a/source/py3donate.rst
+++ b/source/py3donate.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 Below you'll find the `planned stages of work`_ and the associated
 fundraising targets we need to make things happen.  Once we reach the
-neccessary target for each stage, we will start contracting
+necessary target for each stage, we will start contracting
 developers.  Contracts and money are managed by the non-profit
 `Software Freedom Conservancy`_ of which the PyPy project is a member.
 The current elected representatives are Carl Friedrich Bolz, Holger
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
 ========
 
 The goal of this project is to write an interpreter that interprets
-version 3 of Python language. To be precise we would aim at having
-Python 3.2 interpreter together in the same codebase as python 2.7
+version 3 of the Python language. To be precise we would aim at having
+a Python 3.2 interpreter together with the same codebase as the Python 2.7
 one.
 
 At the end of the project, it will be possible to decide at
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@
 particular, it might be possible that the resulting Python 3
 interpreter will be slower than the Python 2 one.  If needed,
 optimizing and making it more JIT friendly will be the scope of a
-separate project.
+separate project.  (Our existing JIT generation technology should apply
+out of the box; this disclaimer is only about the extra performance we
+could obtain by tweaking the Python 3 interpreter or writing specific
+interpreter-guided optimizations in the JIT.)
 
 About estimates and costs
 -------------------------
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@
     - **Estimate cost**: $37,000
 
 * **Sub-step 1.2**: other syntactic changes, builtin types and functions,
-    exceptions:
+  exceptions:
 
     - views and iterators instead of lists (e.g., ``dict.items()``, ``map``,
       ``range`` & co.)
@@ -220,9 +223,10 @@
 The increased execution speed that PyPy provides has attracted many users,
 who now find their Python code runs up to four times faster under PyPy
 than under the reference implementation written in C. Some programs that
-are particularly JIT-friendly see even greater speedups.
+are particularly JIT-friendly see even greater speedups.  See our speed__
+website.
 
-_`speed`: http://speed.pypy.org
+.. __: http://speed.pypy.org
 
 Meanwhile, the Python community is undergoing significant change, with the
 introduction of a new 'version 3' of the Python language (Python 3).


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