[keefe]

>This only allows you to strangle yourself in a more CPU-efficient manner.

I thought you meant losing cycles due to blocking or spinlocks when you said strangling.

>Locks et al. are low level interface

Actually no, this is the world of multiple cores. Threads are the most trivially accessible way to parallelize activities, so they are just a modern primitive.

>Once you go into clusters, you loose your precious notion of shared memory anyway

Zookeeper. Distributed clocks and sequences and all that often require a few bits.

I was just making fun in the last sentence, if you didn't catch the linguistic joke about populism in my word choice. I'd guess you work in erlang.