[tptacek]

I don't much like this article either, despite being its author, but I don't see how you've managed to refute its applicability to the application being discussed on the thread. The mutual exclusion referenced up thread is real.

[_dps]

Because this article is highly cited, and because you strike me as a personality who would appreciate micro-detail feedback: there is a typo ("algoritms") in the first sentence that immediately threw off my attention from an otherwise quite interesting piece of writing.

This is offered with respect and not a desire to nitpick. I hope it doesn't come across as annoying :)