From da0a0bae8b50087d140309b27eb4d4b4776c27e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcus Stollsteimer Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 22:13:49 +0100 Subject: NEWS: add meaning of "CoW" ("copy-on-write") --- NEWS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4ca115517e..06fb75dfec 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ GC:: * Added GC.compact method for compacting the heap. This function compacts live objects in the heap so that fewer pages may - be used, and the heap may be more CoW friendly. [Feature #15626] + be used, and the heap may be more CoW (copy-on-write) friendly. [Feature #15626] Details on the algorithm and caveats can be found here: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15626 -- cgit v1.2.3