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CS258: Reading Assignment #18
Due Wednesday, May 1



The reading assignment for Friday for CS 258 is to read the following two papers:
  1. Closing the window of vulnerability in multiphase memory transactions, John Kubiatowicz, David Chaiken, Anant Agarwal. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems (ASPLOS) 1992.
  2. Data speculation support for a chip multiprocessor,   Lance Hammond, Mark Willey,  Kunle Olukotun.  In Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems (ASPLOS) 1998.
Write one paragraph about each of these papers. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then  describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.

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