<para>
GTK can use the cache files created by <command>gtk4-update-icon-cache</command>
to avoid a lot of system call and disk seek overhead when the application
- starts. Since the format of the cache files allows them to be mmaped
- shared between multiple applications, the overall memory consumption is
- reduced as well.
+ starts. Since the format of the cache files allows them to be shared across
+ multiple processes, for instance using the POSIX <command>mmap()</command> system
+ call, the overall memory consumption is reduced as well.
</para>
</refsect1>