Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
423250 Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 2010 14 Pages PDF
Abstract

Using game semantics, we prove a full abstraction result (with respect to the may-testing preorder) for Idealized Algol augmented with parallel composition (IA||). Although it is common knowledge that semaphores can be implemented using shared memory, we find that semaphores do not extend IA|| conservatively. We explain the reasons for the mismatch.

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