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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2014.11
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-47688
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2014/4768/
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Bardsley, Ethel

Everything you know is wrong: The amazing time traveling CPU, and other horrors of concurrency

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Abstract

In this paper, we shall explore weak memory models, their insidious effects, and how it could happen to you! It shall explained how and why both compilers and CPUs rewrite your program to make it faster, the inevitable fallout of this, and what you can do to protect your code. We
shall craft a lock, building from a naïve and broken implementation up to a safe and correct form, and study the underlying model that requires these modifications as we go.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{bardsley:OASIcs:2014:4768,
  author =	{Ethel Bardsley},
  title =	{{Everything you know is wrong: The amazing time traveling CPU, and other horrors of concurrency}},
  booktitle =	{2014 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop},
  pages =	{11--18},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-76-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{43},
  editor =	{Rumyana Neykova and Nicholas Ng},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2014/4768},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-47688},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2014.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Concurrency, weak memory, compilers}
}

Keywords: Concurrency, weak memory, compilers
Collection: 2014 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop
Issue Date: 2014
Date of publication: 08.10.2014

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