Agreed, Rob Pike, in his search engine example at Google's I/O 2012 IIRC, made the explicit point that mutexes are there and that channels are for joining large

Agreed, Rob Pike, in his search engine example at Google's I/O 2012 IIRC, made the explicit point that mutexes are there and that channels are for joining large concurrent parts of the program together; guarding a data structure seems too small even though it's a common (toy?) example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f6kdp27TYZs http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f...