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USENIX ASSOC2021

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IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

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Lock-Unlock: Is That All? A Pragmatic Analysis of Locking in Software Systems

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Atomic object reads for in-memory rack-scale computing

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Log-Free Concurrent Data Structures

Rachid Guerraoui, Aleksandar Dragojevic, Mihail Igor Zablotchi, Tudor Alexandru David

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USENIX ASSOC2018

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