This paper presents a detailed comparison of the relative importance of allowing concurrent writers versus the choice of the underlying consistency model. Our comparison is based ...
Release consistency is a widely accepted memory model for distributed shared memory systems. Eager release consistency represents the state of the art in release consistent protoc...
Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Michael L. Scott, Rica...
Most modern compilers operate by applying a fixed, program-independent sequence of optimizations to all programs. Compiler writers choose a single “compilation sequence”, or ...
L. Almagor, Keith D. Cooper, Alexander Grosul, Tim...
Two broad classes of memory models are available today: models with hardware cache coherence, used in conventional chip multiprocessors, and models that rely upon software to mana...
John H. Kelm, Daniel R. Johnson, William Tuohy, St...