>> If you eliminate shared state, you have no reason to misuse those synchronization primitives. A multi-threaded program that doesn't need to share state prob

>> If you eliminate shared state, you have no reason to misuse those synchronization primitives. A multi-threaded program that doesn't need to share state probably isn't the usual case, not from my experience anyway. Locks are not evil, think of a railway station, there are sections of track that must be shared by multiple trains.