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A randomized implementation is given of a test-and-set register with O(log log n) individual step complexity and O(n) total step complexity against an oblivious adversary. The implementation is linearizable and multi-shot, and shows an exponential complexity improvement over previous solutions designed to work against a strong adversary.
The work of Dan Alistarh was supported by the NCCR MICS Project. The work of James Aspnes was supported in part by NSF grant CCF-0916389.
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Alistarh, D., Aspnes, J. (2011). Sub-logarithmic Test-and-Set against a Weak Adversary. In: Peleg, D. (eds) Distributed Computing. DISC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6950. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24100-0_7
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