On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:32 +0100, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:

> Anyway, I think this question is misleading. The point is not to
> establish locking schemes that use the hardware better (i.e. that are
> faster), but to help programmers writing correct code.

My aim would be to do both -- they're not independent.
Who cares about concurrency if not to try to do some job faster?
And of course it's no good if you do the wrong thing faster :)

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