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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/site_configuration.rst b/lib/spack/docs/site_configuration.rst index e076aec763..44071bbfc6 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/site_configuration.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/site_configuration.rst @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Temporary space ---------------------------- .. warning:: Temporary space configuration will be moved to configuration files. - The intructions here are old and refer to ``__init__.py`` + The instructions here are old and refer to ``__init__.py`` By default, Spack will try to do all of its building in temporary space. There are two main reasons for this. First, Spack is designed @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ the virtual spec to specs for possible implementations, and later, so there is no need to fully concretize the spec when returning it. -The ``DefaultConcretizer`` is intendend to provide sensible defaults +The ``DefaultConcretizer`` is intended to provide sensible defaults for each policy, but there are certain choices that it can't know about. For example, one site might prefer ``OpenMPI`` over ``MPICH``, or another might prefer an old version of some packages. These types @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ The next time you run Spack, your changes should take effect. Profiling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Spack has some limited builtin support for profiling, and can report +Spack has some limited built-in support for profiling, and can report statistics using standard Python timing tools. To use this feature, supply ``-p`` to Spack on the command line, before any subcommands. @@ -181,6 +181,6 @@ supply ``-p`` to Spack on the command line, before any subcommands. ... The bottom of the output shows the top most time consuming functions, -slowest on top. The profiling support is from Python's builtin tool, +slowest on top. The profiling support is from Python's built-in tool, `cProfile <https://docs.python.org/2/library/profile.html#module-cProfile>`_. |