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@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@
instead the child specification identifier is used,
<c>terminate_child/2</c> will return
<c>{error,simple_one_for_one}</c>.</p>
+ <p>Because a <c>simple_one_for_one</c> supervisor could have many
+ children, it shuts them all down at same time. So, order in which they
+ are stopped is not defined. For the same reason, it could have an
+ overhead with regards to the <c>Shutdown</c> strategy.</p>
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<p>To prevent a supervisor from getting into an infinite loop of