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diff --git a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.xml b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.xml index 367da09ba3..7b00fa5d63 100644 --- a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.xml +++ b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.xml @@ -36,10 +36,9 @@ <title>Timer Module</title> <p>Creating timers using <seealso - marker="erts:erlang#erlang:send_after/3">erlang:send_after/3</seealso> + marker="erts:erlang#send_after/3">erlang:send_after/3</seealso> and - <seealso marker="erts:erlang#erlang:start_timer/3">erlang:start_timer/3</seealso> -, + <seealso marker="erts:erlang#start_timer/3">erlang:start_timer/3</seealso>, is much more efficient than using the timers provided by the <seealso marker="stdlib:timer">timer</seealso> module in STDLIB. The <c>timer</c> module uses a separate process to manage the timers. @@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ dangerous in a system that runs continuously. If only certain well-defined atoms are allowed as input, <seealso marker="erts:erlang#list_to_existing_atom/1">list_to_existing_atom/1</seealso> - can be used to + can be used to guard against a denial-of-service attack. (All atoms that are allowed must have been created earlier, for example, by simply using all of them in a module and loading that module.)</p> |