Marino et al., 2011 - Google Patents
A case for an SC-preserving compilerMarino et al., 2011
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- Marino D
- Singh A
- Millstein T
- Musuvathi M
- Narayanasamy S
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The most intuitive memory consistency model for shared-memory multi-threaded programming is sequential consistency (SC). However, current concurrent programming languages support a relaxed model, as such relaxations are deemed necessary for enabling …
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