SC-Haskell

Michael Vollmer, Ryan G. Scott, Madanlal Musuvathi, Ryan Newton · 2017

A core, but often neglected, aspect of a programming language design is its memory (consistency) model. Sequential consistency~(SC) is the most intuitive memory model for programmers as it guarantees sequential composition of instructions and provides a simple abstraction of shared memory as a single global store with atomic read and writes. Unfortunately, SC is widely considered to be impractical due to its associated performance overheads.

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