[pypy-commit] extradoc extradoc: add concluding sentence

[Raemi]

Author: Remi Meier <remi.meier at inf.ethz.ch>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r5241:379da0f357d3
Date: 2014-05-05 17:00 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/379da0f357d3/

Log:	add concluding sentence

diff --git a/talk/icooolps2014/position-paper.pdf b/talk/icooolps2014/position-paper.pdf
index 61eddb1d20c2838e3b9a63f29aa5080dbda0a2aa..d50af6d75293ebca7607edd49d1c57321cf7e97f
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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
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@
 \section{The Way Forward}
 
 
-Following the above argumentation for each approach we assembled a
+Following the above argumentation for each approach, we assembled a
 general overview in Table \ref{tab:comparison}. The general picture is
 everything else than clear. It looks like HTM may be a good solution
 to replace the GIL in the near future. Current implementations are
@@ -446,10 +446,15 @@
 approach, initial results suggest that we can keep the overhead of STM
 well below 50\%. A hybrid TM system, which also uses HTM to accelerate
 certain tasks, looks like a very promising direction of research
-too. We believe that further work to reduce the overhead of STM is
-very worthwhile.
+too.
 
-
+We believe that further work to reduce the overhead of STM is
+very worthwhile. In fact, considering some analogies that have been
+drawn between garbage collection and transactional memory \cite{dan07},
+we believe that it is worthwhile to focus the STM research more
+specifically on the context shown in this paper --- for use in
+implementations of high-level languages, rather than as a tool
+directly used by the programmer.
 
 
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@@ -475,6 +480,12 @@
 \begin{thebibliography}{}
 \softraggedright
 
+\bibitem{dan07}
+  Dan Grossman. 2007. The transactional memory / garbage collection
+  analogy. \emph{In Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN
+    conference on Object-oriented programming systems and
+    applications} (OOPSLA '07).
+
 \bibitem{webjython}
   The Jython Project, \url{www.jython.org}