You Don't Know Jack about Shared Variables or Memory Models: Data races are evil

[CowboyRobot]

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2088916

[signa11]

well, apart from the very aggressive title, i don't see it covering lot of new ground. seems to be written more for people who don't know memory models exist.

a slightly older but a far better introduction to the whole thing seems to be this one: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~sadve/Publications/computer96.pdf