Editing Release consistency (section)

==  Introduction ==
In modern [[parallel computing]] systems, [[Consistency model|memory consistency]] must be maintained to avoid undesirable outcomes. Strict consistency models like [[sequential consistency]] are intuitively composed but can be quite restrictive in terms of performance as they would disable [[Instruction-level parallelism|instruction level parallelism]] which is widely applied in sequential programming. To achieve better performance, some relaxed models are explored and release consistency is an aggressive relaxing attempt.<ref>[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=325102 ''Memory Consistency and Event Ordering in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors''] by Kourosh Gharachorloo, Daniel Lenoski, James Laudon, Phillip Gibbons, Anoop Gupta, and John Hennessy published in ISCA '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture</ref>