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out-of-thin-air problem: a standalone construct

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the difficulty in defining relaxed memory models that forbid values appearing from circular speculative reasoning while still allowing compiler optimizations.

In programming languages, out-of-thin-air problem refers to the difficulty in defining relaxed memory models that forbid values appearing from circular speculative reasoning while still allowing compiler optimizations. This meaning comes from Boehm (2014) in Proceedings of the workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness.[1]

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References

  1. Boehm, H., & Demsky, B. (2014). Outlawing ghosts: avoiding out-of-thin-air results. Proceedings of the workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness. https://doi.org/10.1145/2618128.2618134

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