Thin Locks: Featherweight Synchronization for Java

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 258-268

  Bacon, David F ^a   Konuru, Ravi ^a   Murthy, Chet ^a   Serrano, Mauricio ^a  

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EID: 0346246685     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/277652.277734     Document Type: Article

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