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Computer architecture

coherence misses caused when processors write different data that happen to lie in the same cache block.

In computer architecture, false sharing refers to coherence misses caused when processors write different data that happen to lie in the same cache block. This meaning comes from Torrellas (1994) in IEEE Transactions on Computers.[1]

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References

Torrellas, J., Lam, H. S., & Hennessy, J. L. (1994). False sharing and spatial locality in multiprocessor caches. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 43(6), 651-663. https://doi.org/10.1109/12.286299

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