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2021
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MxTasks: How to Make Efficient Synchronization and Prefet
SIGMOD 2021 Reviews
proposed approach would be so: - Programmers still needs to annotate the code. Although it should be easier than lock-free programming, it in many cases still requires the programmer to know well the underlying [...] exactly works: is it like the application programmer annotates the code with some keywords, plus an extra compiler pass to generate code, or like the programmer specifically uses an "XTask" class/structure [...] because they give programmers more freedom to leverage specific characteristics of the hardware and to specify synchronization needs. To me, it sounds like annotations actually make programmers’ jobs more difficult …