The power of processor consistency
SPAA '93 Proceedings of the fifth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures
Memory consistency and event ordering in scalable shared-memory multiprocessors
ISCA '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns
Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns
The Java Language Specification
The Java Language Specification
Java consistency: nonoperational characterizations for Java memory behavior
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Programming dynamically reconfigurable open systems with SALSA
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Memory Consistency and Process Coordination for SPARC Multiprocessors
HiPC '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing
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We provide non-operational characterizations of Java memory consistency model (Java Consistency, or simply Java). The work is based on the operational definition of the Java memory consistency as given in the Java Language Specification [6].We study the relation of Java memory behavior to that of some well known models, proving that Java is incomparable with PRAM Consistency and with both variants of Processor Consistency; it is neither stronger nor weaker We show that a programmer can rely on Coherence and a certain variant of Causality for regular variables, Sequential Consistency for volatile variables, and Release Consistency when locks are employed.Proofs are omitted in this extended abstract, see the full version [4].