Memory semantics (computing)

Process logic used to control access to shared memory locations

In computing and parallel processing, memory semantics refers to the process logic used to control access to shared memory locations, or at a higher level to shared variables in the presence of multiple threads or processors.[1]

Memory semantics may also be defined for transactional memory, where issues related to the interaction of transactions and locks, and user-level actions need to be defined and specified.[2]

See also

  • Consistency model

References

  1. ^ Advances in Computers, Volume 79 by Marvin V. Zelkowitz 2010 ISBN 0123810272 pages 104-105
  2. ^ Towards transactional memory semantics for C++ by Tatiana Shpeisman et al in Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures 2009 ISBN 978-1-60558-606-9 [1]
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