February 2023 Multiprocessor Synchronization was one of my favorite classes during my undergrad — it had a clear progression from theory to practice, starting at the theory of consensus numbers and moving onto atomic operations and then synchronization primitives and lock-free data structures, all from first principles. With careful thought and a little intuition-bending, every problem could be stated clearly and solved in a neat, orderly way … in Java. Later on, when I tried to translate what I...