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Compare-and-swap

Known as: Compare and exchange, Compare-and-set, CAS 
In computer science, compare-and-swap (CAS) is an atomic instruction used in multithreading to achieve synchronization. It compares the contents of a… 
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Review
2018
Review
2018
This brief announcement presents a fundamental concurrent primitive for persistent memory - a persistent atomic multi-word… 
2017
2017
Linear references are guaranteed to be free from aliases. This is a strong property that simplifies reasoning about programs and… 
2015
2015
Memcached and other in-memory distributed key-value stores play a critical role in large-scale web applications, by reducing… 
2014
2014
Large-scale interactive applications and online analytic processing on graphs require fast data access to huge sets of small data… 
2013
2013
The Bw-Tree is a high performance latch-free B-tree index that exploits log-structured storage. Its de-sign addresses two… 
2011
2011
This work investigates the benefits of transactional memory for high-performance and scientific computing by examining n-body and… 
2008
2008
The annual accounts and other financial information of big companies is being worldwide standardized. The open standard that… 
2000
2000
Hardware software co-verification tools allow a designer to run software against a hardware design before a prototype has been…