OK, let me try to be more helpful. Here's good backgrounders http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Concurrency/ http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Techn

OK, let me try to be more helpful. Here's good backgrounders http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Concurrency/ http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Concurrency/ http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/10/05/the-cambrian-period-of-concurrency/ http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/10/05/the-cambrian-period-of... http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/5c7a962cc72c1fe7?hl=en http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/... http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/09/jvm-language-su.html http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/09/jvm-language-su.h... http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/pdf/36_Click_fastbcs.pdf http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/pdf/36_Click_fastbcs.pdf --------------------- also recommended: Herlihy/Shavit book, blogs by Sutter and Duffy, http://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Maurice-Herlihy/dp/0123705916 http://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Maurice... http://herbsutter.com/ http://herbsutter.com/ http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/Default.aspx http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/Default.aspx