for race-free programs are equivalent to the ones in that work.
</p>

<p>
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.
</p>

<p>
A <i>memory operation</i> is modeled by four details:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>its kind, indicating whether it is an ordinary data read, an ordinary data write,

</p>

<h3 id="minor_library_changes">Minor changes to the library</h3>

<p>
  As always, there are various minor changes and updates to the library,
  made with the Go 1 <a href="/doc/go1compat">promise of compatibility</a>
  in mind.
  There are also various performance improvements, not enumerated here.
</p>

The value of <code>GOMIPS</code> environment variable (<code>hardfloat</code> or
<code>softfloat</code>) is made available to assembly code by predefining either
<code>GOMIPS_hardfloat</code> or <code>GOMIPS_softfloat</code>.
</p>

<p>
The value of <code>GOMIPS64</code> environment variable (<code>hardfloat</code> or
<code>softfloat</code>) is made available to assembly code by predefining either