A cute technique for avoiding certain data race conditions(cilk.com)

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A cute technique for avoiding certain data race conditions

http://www.cilk.com/multicore-blog/bid/9328/a-cute-technique-for-avoiding-certain-race-conditions

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Offtopic: I once worked on the yearly revision to a certain popular football game. We had a bug at one point where players would show up with one skin color head, and a totally different skin color arms.

I suggested we call this the "race condition bug".