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The parallel language EDS Lisp has been designed for distributed memory machines. In this respect, it presupposes only a minimal required coherency in the storage view of parallel processes. This paper describes the coherency model of EDS Lisp and shows how the requirements of EDS Lisp can be realized using a weak coherency model on the parallel distributed memory EDS machine.
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Hammer, C., Henties, T. (1991). Using a weak coherency model for a parallel Lisp. In: Bode, A. (eds) Distributed Memory Computing. EDMCC 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 487. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0032921
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