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authorMicael Karlberg <[email protected]>2011-03-25 21:19:05 +0100
committerMicael Karlberg <[email protected]>2011-03-25 21:19:05 +0100
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@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ loop() ->
<seealso marker="erts:erlang#spawn_opt/4">spawn_opt/4</seealso>.</p>
<p>The gain is twofold: Firstly, although the garbage collector will
- grow the heap, it will it grow it step by step, which will be more
+ grow the heap, it will grow it step by step, which will be more
costly than directly establishing a larger heap when the process
is spawned. Secondly, the garbage collector may also shrink the
heap if it is much larger than the amount of data stored on it;
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ days_in_month(M) ->
<p>Shared sub-terms are <em>not</em> preserved when a term is sent
to another process, passed as the initial process arguments in
the <c>spawn</c> call, or stored in an ETS table.
- That is an optimization. Most applications do not send message
+ That is an optimization. Most applications do not send messages
with shared sub-terms.</p>
<p>Here is an example of how a shared sub-term can be created:</p>
@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ true
<section>
<title>The SMP emulator</title>
- <p>The SMP emulator (introduced in R11B) will take advantage of
- multi-core or multi-CPU computer by running several Erlang schedulers
+ <p>The SMP emulator (introduced in R11B) will take advantage of a
+ multi-core or multi-CPU computer by running several Erlang scheduler
threads (typically, the same as the number of cores). Each scheduler
thread schedules Erlang processes in the same way as the Erlang scheduler
in the non-SMP emulator.</p>