Browse Source

Fixed "sleight of hand" typo in Ch5

The correct spelling is "sleight of hand." Slight means thin, while sleight means using skill or dexterity. 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sleight-vs-slight-usage-legerdemain
Alex MacLean 4 years ago
parent
commit
8bd5a80170
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 1 1
      book.tex

+ 1 - 1
book.tex

@@ -6136,7 +6136,7 @@ So the goal of the garbage collector is twofold:
   \emph{garbage}.
   \emph{garbage}.
 \end{enumerate}
 \end{enumerate}
 A copying collector accomplishes this by copying all of the live
 A copying collector accomplishes this by copying all of the live
-objects from the FromSpace into the ToSpace and then performs a slight
+objects from the FromSpace into the ToSpace and then performs a sleight
 of hand, treating the ToSpace as the new FromSpace and the old
 of hand, treating the ToSpace as the new FromSpace and the old
 FromSpace as the new ToSpace.  In the example of
 FromSpace as the new ToSpace.  In the example of
 Figure~\ref{fig:copying-collector}, there are three pointers in the
 Figure~\ref{fig:copying-collector}, there are three pointers in the