LIPIcs - Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)
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Abstract
Memory consistency models for modern concurrent languages have largely been designed from a system-centric point of view that protects, at all costs, optimizations that were originally designed for sequential programs. The result is a situation that, when viewed from a programmer\u27s standpoint, borders on absurd. We illustrate this unfortunate situation with a brief fable and then examine the opportunities to right our path
