Comment relevant article (Score 5, Informative) 306
I don't know if it has been referenced here before, a very interesting and enlightening article :
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.ht m
"The eleventh commandment was `Thou Shalt Compute' or `Thou Shalt Not Compute' -- I forget which." -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982