[pypy-commit] extradoc extradoc: Settle for front- and backend

bivab noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Tue Aug 14 14:44:32 CEST 2012


Author: David Schneider <david.schneider at picle.org>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r4561:2341e3e47203
Date: 2012-08-14 14:23 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/2341e3e47203/

Log:	Settle for front- and backend

diff --git a/talk/vmil2012/paper.tex b/talk/vmil2012/paper.tex
--- a/talk/vmil2012/paper.tex
+++ b/talk/vmil2012/paper.tex
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@
 
 %___________________________________________________________________________
 \todo{find a better name for \texttt{low-level resume data}}
-\todo{find better names for JIT front- and backend}
 \todo{mention somewhere that it is to be expected that most guards do not fail}
 \section{Introduction}
 
@@ -196,12 +195,12 @@
 Section~\ref{sec:Background}, such as the PyPy project, the RPython language
 and its meta-tracing JIT. Based on these concepts in Section~\ref{sec:Resume
 Data} we proceed to describe for RPython's tracing JIT the details of guards in
-the frontend\bivab{better term for this?} related to recording and storing the
+the frontend related to recording and storing the
 information required to rebuild the interpreter state in case of a guard
 failure. Once the frontend has traced and optimized a loop it invokes the
 backend to compile the operations to machine code, Section \ref{sec:Guards in
 the Backend} describes the low-level aspects of how guards are implemented in
-the JIT-backend. The frequency of guards and the overhead associated with the
+the machine specific JIT-backend. The frequency of guards and the overhead associated with the
 implementation described in this paper is discussed in
 Section~\ref{sec:evaluation}. Section~\ref{sec:Related Work} presents an
 overview about how guards are treated in the context of other just-in-time


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