29 Jan 2013 redi   » (Master)

I've often joked that instead of picking up Djikstra's cute acronym we should have called the basic synchronization object "the bottleneck". Bottlenecks are useful at times, sometimes indispensible -- but they're never GOOD.

David Butenhof on mutexes, from the illuminating Re: recursive mutexes

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