argh and it's a crappy analogy honestly. There's no real deadlocks as far as cycles of dependencies on critical resources. It's basically saying the stock mar

argh and it's a crappy analogy honestly. There's no real deadlocks as far as cycles of dependencies on critical resources. It's basically saying the stock market is a giant distributed system with a bunch of independent agents, which erm it is... this analogy to threading just doesn't add anything, it's just the author's model for agents acting concurrently, threading is a low level OS thing not the fundamentals of concurrent action.