Merge branch 'bg/efficiency-guide' into dev

* bg/efficiency-guide:
  Efficiency Guide: Recommend external funs over tuple funs
  Efficiency Guide: The maximum number of atoms can be configured
  Efficiency Guide: Fix typos

OTP-8515 bg/efficiency-guide

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml
index 0ec3afbd59..7898f925b9 100644
--- a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml
+++ b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <chapter>
   <header>
     <copyright>
-      <year>2001</year><year>2009</year>
+      <year>2001</year><year>2010</year>
       <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
       compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
       Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
       retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
-    
+
       Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
       basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
       the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
       under the License.
-    
+
     </legalnotice>
 
     <title>Advanced</title>
@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@ On 64-bit architectures: 4 words for a reference from the current local node, an
       <item>255</item>
       <tag><em>Atoms </em></tag>
       <item>      <marker id="atoms"></marker>
-The maximum number of atoms is 1048576. </item>
+	By default, the maximum number of atoms is 1048576.
+	This limit can be raised or lowered using the <c>+t</c> option.</item>
       <tag><em>Ets-tables</em></tag>
       <item>The default is 1400, can be changed with the environment variable <c>ERL_MAX_ETS_TABLES</c>.</item>
       <tag><em>Elements in a tuple</em></tag>
@@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ The maximum number of atoms is 1048576. </item>
       <tag><em>Total amount of data allocated by an Erlang node</em></tag>
       <item>The Erlang runtime system can use the complete 32 (or 64) bit address space,
        but the operating system often limits a single process to use less than that.</item>
-      <tag><em>length of a node name</em></tag>
+      <tag><em>Length of a node name</em></tag>
       <item>An Erlang node name has the form host@shortname or host@longname. The node name is 
        used as an atom within the system so the maximum size of 255 holds for the node name too.</item>
       <tag><em>Open ports</em></tag>