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The process may be waiting for a signal, or even if processing input, may be
delayed by network interrupts.
The process may be waiting for a signal, or, even if processing input, may be
delayed by network interrupts.
Use the minimum number of commas needed to avoid ambiguity. Sentences
with many commas often have strangulated syntax; if the commas seem necessary,
consider breaking the sentence into shorter ones or rewriting it altogether. But don't
omit too many commas.
When using disk tree algorithms were found to be particularly poor.
When using disk, tree algorithms were found to be particularly poor.
One node was allocated for each of the states, but of the nine seven were not
used.
One node was allocated for each of the states, but, of the nine, seven were not
used.
Nine nodes were allocated, one for each of the states, but seven were not used.
Another exception to the minimal-commas rule is in lists. A simple example of a list
is “the structures were arrays, trees, and hash tables”. Many authors (and editors)
prefer to omit the last comma from a list, known as the
serial comma
, a process that
rarely adds clarity and often does it serious damage.
At this stage, the alternatives were to branch to the left, back up one
step and branch to the right, insert a new value or increment the failure
counter and exit with error.
At this stage, the alternatives were to branch to the left, back up one
step and branch to the right, insert a new value, or increment the failure
counter and exit with error.
Commas can be used to give the reader time to breathe.
As illustrated by the techniques listed at the end of the section there are
recent advances in parallel algorithms and multiprocessor hardware that
indicate the possibility of optimal use of shared disk arrays by indexing algo-
rithms such as those of interest here.
As illustrated by the techniques listed at the end of the section, recent advances
in parallel algorithms and multiprocessor hardware may allow optimal use of
shared disk arrays by some algorithms, including indexing algorithms such as
those of interest here.
Cutting this into several sentences would undoubtedly improve it further.
