That's one meaning of memory model. Historically, however, "memory model" refers to the theoretical way that a language represents memory, independently of plat

That's one meaning of memory model. Historically, however, "memory model" refers to the theoretical way that a language represents memory, independently of platform. For example, see this presentation (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs2022/2011sp/lectures/lect06.pdf http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs2022/2011sp/lectures/lec...) of "The C Memory Model" (which happens to deal with memory layout very intimately, because C is very close-to-the-metal). The use of "memory model" to describe primarily threading/concurrency behavior seems to be a Java innovation that's been picked up by the Go community.