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Maurice Herlihy and Wait-Free Synchronization: The Consensus Hierarchy

Maurice Herlihy's wait-free consensus hierarchy classified shared objects by the number of processes for which they can solve consensus, revealing which primitives are fundamentally more powerful than others.

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