Well, parallel programming requires discipline, and a plan. Deadlocks do not occur when locks are always acquired in the same order. The fact that deadlocks o

Well, parallel programming requires discipline, and a plan. Deadlocks do not occur when locks are always acquired in the same order. The fact that deadlocks occur at all (and I know they are notoriously hard to debug-- I've done it, lol), is due to the fact that one or both of the locking strategy and/or adherence to said locking strategy was flawed.