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Chapter 1: Introduction to Persistent Memory Programming �� 1
A High-Level Example Program �� 2
What’s Different? �� 5
The Performance Difference�� 6
Program Complexity �� 7
How Does libpmemkv Work? �� 8
What’s Next? �� 9
Summary�� 9
Chapter 2: Persistent Memory Architecture �� 11
Persistent Memory Characteristics �� 12
Platform Support for Persistent Memory �� 13
Cache Hierarchy �� 14
Power-Fail Protected Domains �� 16
The Need for Flushing, Ordering, and Fencing �� 19
Data Visibility �� 23
Intel Machine Instructions for Persistent Memory �� 24
Detecting Platform Capabilities �� 25
Table of Contents
About the Author �� xiii
About the Technical Reviewer ��xv
About the Contributors ��xvii
Acknowledgments ��xxi
Preface ��xxiii

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