RE: JavaMemoryModel: The range of memory models now in play

From: Yue Yang (yyang@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 13:09:41 EDT


On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Sarita Adve wrote:

> Saying only that an execution trace is totally ordered is somewhat
> "content-free" unless some properties are assigned to the total
> ordering.

To say this in another way, conceptually forming the total order is
only an intermediate process of defining the legal execution trace.

The final effect is that each thread would have a per-thread visibility
order, defined by some partial order based on the synchronization
mechanism and possibly other requirements.

-- Jason

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