Repetition [LWN.net]

Repetition

Posted Sep 23, 2007 21:36 UTC (Sun) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
Parent article: What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

Here's a little grammar fix for the article:

It is limited to commodity hardware and and further limited to a subset of that hardware.

Note that these technical details tend to change rapidly, so the the reader is advised to take the date of this writing into account.

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Repetition

Posted Sep 24, 2007 12:24 UTC (Mon) by malor (guest, #2973) [Link]

Another little fix:

"reverting negative impact of the serialization and even increase the bandwidth."

would be more grammatically correct as,

"reverting the negative impact of the serialization and even increasing the bandwidth."

(add "the", add "ing".)

You could also drop "the" before both serialization and bandwidth, for improved flow. If it were my sentence, I'd write it this way:

"... reverting the negative impact of serialization, and even increasing total bandwidth."

Another grammar fix

Posted Sep 27, 2007 21:41 UTC (Thu) by rmunn (guest, #40618) [Link]

I spotted another grammar oops. In section 2 ("Commodity Hardware Today"), seventh paragraph (the one immediately after the first bullet-point list), the last sentence reads: "This problem, therefore, must to be taken into account." That should be either "needs to be taken into account" or "must be taken into account."

This is, of course, an artifact of editing the paper, where "needs to be" was changed into "must be" at some point but the leftover "to" was missed.