A unified theory of shared memory consistency.

The traditional assumption about memory is that a read returns the value written by the most recent write. However, in a shared memory multiprocessor several processes independently and simultaneously submit reads and writes resulting in a partial order of memory operations. In this partial order, t...

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Publié dans:Journal of the ACM 51, 5 (2004).
Auteur principal: Steinke, Robert C.
Format: Article
Langue:English
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