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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Quarantining Weakness
Compositional Reasoning under Relaxed Memory Models (Extended Abstract)
Authors : Radha Jagadeesan, Gustavo Petri, Corin Pitcher, James Riely
Published in: Programming Languages and Systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In sequential computing, every method of an object can be described in isolation via preconditions and postconditions. However, reasoning in a concurrent setting requires a characterization of all possible interactions acrossmethod invocations.Herlihy and Wing [1990]’s notion of linearizability simplifies such reasoning by intuitively ensuring that each method invocation “takes effect” between its invocation and response events.