Structured Deferral: Synchronization via Procrastination.

The article discusses synchronization via procrastination as a structured deferral in software design. Topics covered include lazy approaches like reference counting, garbage collection and lazy evaluation, the significant time needed to detect hardware failure, and the usefulness of synchronization...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 7; pp. 40 - 50
Main Author:	MCKENNEY, PAUL E.
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jul2013
Subjects:	Synchronization Software architecture Time measurements Computer software Computer software development Computer memory management
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