On 24 Feb 2012, at 20:52, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I posted this link to IRC, but for the benefit of others, here's a paper > that I highly recommend for anyone interested in a better way to handle > sychronization and concurrency: > > http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/stm/stm.pdf
Also described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory Hans