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The memory model describes the requirements on program executions,
which are made up of goroutine executions,
which in turn are made up of memory operations.
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A <i>memory operation</i> is modeled by four details:
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	<li>its kind, indicating whether it is an ordinary data read, an ordinary data write,
    or a <i>synchronizing operation</i> such as an atomic data access,