diff --git a/source/tmdonate2.txt b/source/tmdonate2.txt index a0ea9f9091f328a79ac50b0a28f4cc118f882a48_c291cmNlL3RtZG9uYXRlMi50eHQ=..eea549ad85d2f0a99f5c62b5b2cac5bf461f2aae_c291cmNlL3RtZG9uYXRlMi50eHQ= 100644 --- a/source/tmdonate2.txt +++ b/source/tmdonate2.txt @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ ======== This is the second call for donations on the topic of Transactional -Memory (TM) in PyPy, a way to run CPU-hungry Python programs in +Memory (*TM*) in PyPy, a way to run CPU-hungry Python programs in multithreaded mode. It is a follow-up on our `first call for donations`_ from two years ago. At that time, we suggested a single-threaded slow-down of somewhere between 2x and 5x. The aim that @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ What is Transactional Memory? ----------------------------- -`Transactional Memory`_ (TM) is a technique imported from +`Transactional Memory`_ (*TM*) is a technique imported from databases: every time we want to do a change to the processors' main memory, we do it in a "transaction". Multiple transactions can be executed in parallel by multiple cores. When a transaction is complete, diff --git a/tmdonate2.html b/tmdonate2.html index a0ea9f9091f328a79ac50b0a28f4cc118f882a48_dG1kb25hdGUyLmh0bWw=..eea549ad85d2f0a99f5c62b5b2cac5bf461f2aae_dG1kb25hdGUyLmh0bWw= 100644 --- a/tmdonate2.html +++ b/tmdonate2.html @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ <div class="section" id="preamble"> <h1>Preamble</h1> <p>This is the second call for donations on the topic of Transactional -Memory ™ in PyPy, a way to run CPU-hungry Python programs in +Memory (<em>TM</em>) in PyPy, a way to run CPU-hungry Python programs in multithreaded mode. It is a follow-up on our <a class="reference external" href="http://pypy.org/tmdonate.html">first call for donations</a> from two years ago. At that time, we suggested a single-threaded slow-down of somewhere between 2x and 5x. The aim that @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ </div> <div class="section" id="what-is-transactional-memory"> <h2>What is Transactional Memory?</h2> -<p><a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory">Transactional Memory</a> ™ is a technique imported from +<p><a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory">Transactional Memory</a> (<em>TM</em>) is a technique imported from databases: every time we want to do a change to the processors' main memory, we do it in a “transaction”. Multiple transactions can be executed in parallel by multiple cores. When a transaction is complete,