I have to say that this blog post is a fantastic summary of a lot of the challenges to concurrent programming past and present. I sort of wish that there was a

I have to say that this blog post is a fantastic summary of a lot of the challenges to concurrent programming past and present. I sort of wish that there was at least brief discussion of things like software transactional memory or compare and swap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare_and_swap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare_and_swap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory