Hi,
Let me chime in.
On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:34:43 +0000, Kunwu Chan wrote:
[...]
> Hi Paul,
>
> Sounds good. I went through the current PDF and gathered the occurrences
> of "hinted at/on" that I could find. Here is the list for review:
>
> Using PDF file: perfbook.2025.12.18a.pdf.
>
> 1) PDF location:
> p.98 (PDF page 110/686), Chapter 6 (Beyond Partitioning)
> Source location: SMPdesign/beyond.tex (line 14)
>
> “This chapter has discussed how data partitioning can be used to
> design simple linearly scalable parallel programs.
> \Cref{sec:SMPdesign:Data Ownership} hinted at the possibilities of
> data replication, which will be used to great effect in
> \cref{sec:defer:Read-Copy Update (RCU)}.”
>
> 2) PDF location:
> p.142 (PDF page 154/686), Chapter 9.4 (Sequence Locks)
> Source location: defer/seqlock.tex (lines 411–416)
>
> “As hinted on
> \cpageref{sec:defer:Mysteries sequence locking},
> both the read-side and write-side critical sections of a sequence
> lock can be thought of as transactions, and sequence locking
> therefore can be thought of as a limited form of transactional
> memory, which will be discussed in
> \cref{sec:future:Transactional Memory}.”
>
> 3) PDF location:
> p.155 (PDF page 167/686), Chapter 9.5 (RCU)
> Source location: defer/rcufundamental.tex (lines 559–563)
>
> “In such cases, RCU readers can be considered to be fully ordered with
> updaters, despite the fact that these readers might be executing the
> exact same sequence of machine instructions that would be executed by
> a single-threaded program, as hinted on
> \cpageref{sec:defer:Mysteries RCU}.”
>
> 4) PDF location:
> p.184 (PDF page 196/686), Chapter 9.5.4.12 area
> Source location: defer/rcuusage.tex (lines 2052–2054)
>
> “And so it is that RCU's use cases are conceptually more complex than
> is RCU itself, as hinted on
> \cpageref{sec:defer:Mysteries RCU Use Cases}.”
>
> 5) PDF location:
> p.533 (PDF page 545/686), Quick Quiz answers area
> Source location: defer/rcuintro.tex (lines 141–145)
>
> “As hinted at in
> \cref{sec:cpu:Hardware Optimizations,sec:cpu:Hardware Free Lunch?},
> speed-of-light delays mean that a computer's data is always stale
> compared to whatever external reality that data is intended to model.”
>
> Please let me know which ones you’d prefer to keep as-is and
> which should be adjusted, and I’ll prepare a patch accordingly.
Not a native speaker of English, but I don't see any need of changing them.
>From 1)
Section XXX hinted at the possibilities of data replication, ...
>From 2), 3), and 4)
As/as hinted on page YYY ...
>From 5)
As hinted at in Section ZZZ, ...
All of them sound pretty natural to me.
You might be missing the implication of "page XXX", which can mean
physical page in a book. Saying "on page XXX" is quite natural.
OTOH, when you see "Section XXX hinted at <some ideas>", you should
consider "hint at" works as a synonym of "indicate" as a verb.
Hope this helps.
Thanks, Akira
>
>
> Thanx, Kunwu
