From ad080ea64516fc46624c9cb367e6b38e7ae4a7d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Brooksby Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:24:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Clarifying relationship between mps_pool_walk and transforms with brief description of purpose and links, in response to review . --- mps/manual/source/release.rst | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mps/manual/source/release.rst b/mps/manual/source/release.rst index 12080fbc35f..cabf9158f21 100644 --- a/mps/manual/source/release.rst +++ b/mps/manual/source/release.rst @@ -42,15 +42,15 @@ New features experimental: the implementation is likely to change in future versions of the MPS. See :ref:`design-monitor`. +#. The newly-public **transforms** feature updates references to a set + of objects throughout the automatically managed portion of the + heap, allowing them to be replaced by new versions. See + :ref:`topic-transform`. + #. The new function :c:func:`mps_pool_walk` visits all areas of :term:`formatted objects` in a pool using the - :ref:`topic-scanning-protocol`. This allows the client program to - safely update references in the visited objects. - -#. The new **transforms** feature updates references throughout the - automatically managed portion of the heap. For some use cases this - may be more convenient than :c:func:`mps_pool_walk`. See - :ref:`topic-transform`. + :ref:`topic-scanning-protocol`, support hot reloading and + serialization. See :ref:`design-walk`. #. A :term:`virtual memory arena` can now be configured to call functions when it acquires a new chunk of :term:`address space`,