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CA 2056715 A1 · Owner: Liptay, John S. · Inventors: Comfort, Steven T.; Liptay, John S.; Webb, Charles F.
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A system and method whereby a central processor can continue operation beyond a serialization point before the architecture defines that it is permissible to do so. According to the system and method it is ascertained, whether correct results are being achieved after the serializing point. If some doubt develops about the correctness of the results, the processor is returned to its status at the serialization point and the processing is repeated. In one embodiment, correctness of results is determined by way of a monitoring mechanism which depends on the fact that the interactions between CPUs are confined to references to storage. The operations which are performed prior to the time that …
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- Filed November 29, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 29, 2011.
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