Low-Lock Singletons In D

[Sean Kelly]

On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 13:25:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> A tutorial on memory consistency models would be too long to 
> insert here. I don't know of a good online resource, does 
> anyone?

The best explanation I've found of memory models is this paper:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=325102

Which can be had for free (albeit in terrible print quality) here:

http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/courses/eece343/papers/p15-gharachorloo.pdf

Kourosh Gharachorloo actually has a number of really good papers 
about this stuff.  Here's another, if you're interested in the 
details of how things work:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-95-9.pdf