[m-dev.] Globals and concurrency

[Ralph Becket]

This is perhaps orthogonal to the discussion in hand, but I think we
should take a Good Look at the software transactional memory approach
implemented as the STM Haskell variant of GHC.  Here's a good place to
start:

http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/stm/index.htm
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