Relaxed-memory concurrency and verified compilation

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-54

  Ševčík, Jaroslav ^a   Vafeiadis, Viktor ^a,b   Nardelli, Francesco Zappa ^c   Jagannathan, Suresh ^d   Sewell, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c INRIA   (France)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Relaxed Memory Models; Semantics; Verifying Compilation

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ALGORITHMS; CORRECTNESS PROOFS; MEMORY CONCURRENCY; MEMORY MODELS; OPTIMISATIONS; PERFORMANCE CODE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAMMING MODELS; RELAXED MEMORY MODELS; SEMANTIC DESIGN; SHARED MEMORIES; VERIFYING COMPILATION;

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 79251546778     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1925844.1926393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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