On the Importance of Having an Identity or, is Consensus really Universal?
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consensusall--assumptionbringdifferencesdistinctexistenceexisting
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We show that Naming-- the existence of distinct IDs known to all-- is a hidden but necessary assumption of Herlihy's universality result for Consensus. We then show in a very precise sense that Naming is harder than Consensus and bring to the surface some important differences existing between popular shared memory models.
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