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diff --git a/doc/spawn.txt b/doc/spawn.txt index c5c96ecf8..b2496285f 100644 --- a/doc/spawn.txt +++ b/doc/spawn.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Parallel & Spawn ========================================================== -Nimrod has two flavors of parallelism: +Nim has two flavors of parallelism: 1) `Structured`:idx parallelism via the ``parallel`` statement. 2) `Unstructured`:idx: parallelism via the standalone ``spawn`` statement. @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Parallel statement Example: -.. code-block:: nimrod +.. code-block:: nim # Compute PI in an inefficient way import strutils, math, threadpool @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Example: The parallel statement is the preferred mechanism to introduce parallelism -in a Nimrod program. A subset of the Nimrod language is valid within a +in a Nim program. A subset of the Nim language is valid within a ``parallel`` section. This subset is checked to be free of data races at compile time. A sophisticated `disjoint checker`:idx: ensures that no data races are possible even though shared memory is extensively supported! @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ the passed expression on the thread pool and returns a `data flow variable`:idx: **blocking**. However, one can use ``awaitAny`` to wait on multiple flow variables at the same time: -.. code-block:: nimrod +.. code-block:: nim import threadpool, ... # wait until 2 out of 3 servers received the update: |