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Rather, it is a pragmatic concession to the fact that *everyone* is pretty bad
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at modeling atomics. At very least, we can benefit from existing tooling and
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research around the C/C++ memory model.
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(You'll often see this model referred to as "C11" or "C/C++11". C and C++ share their
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memory model and those were the first versions but they have received some bugfixes
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since then.)
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Trying to fully explain the model in this book is fairly hopeless. It's defined
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in terms of madness-inducing causality graphs that require a full book to

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