Signed-off-by: Johann Klähn <johann@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Paul,
I'm really enjoying the book and hope that I can contribute back a little bit in
the form of small fixes. As this is my first patch to this list, please point
out anything I could improve in the future (e.g., granularity of patches).
Thanks
Johann
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count/count.tex | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/count/count.tex b/count/count.tex
index d2b39904..f4e74c13 100644
--- a/count/count.tex
+++ b/count/count.tex
@@ -3237,7 +3237,7 @@ Summarizing the summary:
\Cref{fig:count:Atomic Increment Scalability on x86}
illustrates this point:
Atomic increment might be completely acceptable for a two-CPU
- system, but be completely inadequate for an eight-CPU system.
+ system, but can be completely inadequate for an eight-CPU system.
\end{enumerate}
\begin{figure}
@@ -3251,7 +3251,7 @@ Summarizing still further, we have the ``big three'' methods of
increasing performance and scalability, namely
(1)~\emph{partitioning} over CPUs or threads,
(2)~\emph{batching} so that more work can be done by each expensive
-synchronization operations, and
+synchronization operation, and
(3)~\emph{weakening} synchronization operations where feasible.
As a rough rule of thumb, you should apply these methods in this order,
as was noted earlier in the discussion of
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2.34.1
