in-the-wild

ZODB In Real Life

Hi guys, Writing an app in Python, and been playing with various ORM setups and straight SQL. All of which are ugly as sin. I have been looking at ZODB as an object store, and it looks a promising alternative. My question then: Would you recommend ZODB? What are your experiences, problems, criticism with ZODB? particularly with re...

Are there any concurrent algorithms that in use work correctly without any synchronization?

All of the concurrent programs I've seen or heard details of (admittedly a small set) at some point use hardware synchronization features, generally some form of compare-and-swap. The question is: any there any concurrent programs in the wild where the thread interact throughout there life get away without any synchronization? Example o...