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What Is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy

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The Importance of Understanding Failure in Research

Research involves a lot of failure as assumptions need to be reevaluated when introducing parallelism. The process of adding multicore parallelism to a language like Camel involved facing numerous edge cases and the realization of the need for a solid memory model. Developing a memory model like LDRF was crucial in providing a well-defined semantic for multicore parallelism in Camel, ensuring that the program behaves consistently in different scenarios and access patterns.

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