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Quote: compilers can violate sequential consistency by reordering shared memory operations or allocating shared memory to registers; like relaxed consistency, it is difficult to analyze

topics > all references > references a-b > QuoteRef: adveSV12_1996 , p. 70



Topic:
code optimization
Topic:
managing shared memory

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Compilers that reorder shared memory operations [as part of code optimization] can cause sequential consistency violations similar to hardware. … Besides reordering, compiler optimizations such as register allocation … violations in subtle ways. … [With sequential compilers] It is left to the programmer to … [optimizations] … when disabling is necessary--it requires reasoning that is …   Google-1   Google-2

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