Recent Advances in Memory Consistency Models forHardware Shared - Memory
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| The memory consistency model of a shared-memory system determines the order in which memory operations will appear to execute to the programmer. The memory consistency model for a system typically involves a tradeoo between performance and programmability. This paper provides an overview of recent advances in hardware optimizations , compiler optimizations, and programming environments relevant to memory consistency models of hardware distributed shared-memory systems. We discuss recent hardware and compiler optimizations that exploit the observation that it is suucient to only appear as if the ordering rules of the consistency model are obeyed. These optimizations substantially improve the performance of the strictest consistency model, making it more attractive for its programmability. Recent concurrent programming languages and environments, on the other hand, support more relaxed consistency models. We discuss several such environments, including POSIX threads, Java, and OpenMP.
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