Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
March 2014
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The API Performance Contract
How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?
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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.
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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.