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The balancing act of choosing nonblocking features

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Design requirements of nonblocking systems.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 9
            September 2013
            97 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2500468
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