I once attended a C++ conference, where the last session on the last day was awarded to Andrei Alexandrescu. His talk on lock-free wait-free data structures an

I once attended a C++ conference, where the last session on the last day was awarded to Andrei Alexandrescu. His talk on lock-free wait-free data structures and programming violently changed by direction of my programming for the next decade. I shudder to think that I almost decided to skip the session that day...