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Editorial: Mark high water mark definition as exported #1221

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Expand Up @@ -277,9 +277,9 @@ producer, but not yet processed and acknowledged by the [=underlying sink=].
A <dfn>queuing strategy</dfn> is an object that determines how a stream should signal
[=backpressure=] based on the state of its [=internal queue=]. The queuing strategy assigns a size
to each [=chunk=], and compares the total size of all chunks in the queue to a specified number,
known as the <dfn export>high water mark</dfn>. The resulting difference, high water mark minus total size,
is used to determine the <dfn lt="desired size to fill a stream's internal queue">desired size to
fill the stream's queue</dfn>.
known as the <dfn export>high water mark</dfn>. The resulting difference, high water mark minus
total size, is used to determine the <dfn lt="desired size to fill a stream's internal
queue">desired size to fill the stream's queue</dfn>.

For readable streams, an underlying source can use this desired size as a backpressure signal,
slowing down chunk generation so as to try to keep the desired size above or at zero. For writable
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