Title
Exercises in style (Alpha specifications)
Abstract
We compare two documents: the Alpha Architecture Reference Manual (from Compaq Computer Corporation) and the TLA+ specification of the Alpha memory model (by Lamport, Sharma, Tuttle, and Yu). We compare the styles, the languages employed, and the fundamental assumptions (that is the basic frameworks of the two texts). We conclude that the TLA+ specification is not so much a formalization of the Alpha Reference Manual text as it is a translation into a different framework. We believe that a formalization of the Alpha Reference Manual can be useful, and we propose one.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2003
Fundamenta Informaticae - Concurrency Specification and Programming (CS&P'2002), Part 1
alpha specification,compaq computer corporation,alpha memory model,alpha architecture reference manual,alpha specifications,fundamental assumption,different framework,basic framework,alpha reference manual,alpha reference manual text,memory model
Field
DocType
Volume
Architecture,Programming language,Computer science,Memory model
Journal
54
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2-3
0169-2968
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Uri Abraham15613.91
Tamar Pinhas2142.81