util/concurrency/ files

msg.h - message passing between threads

mutex.h - small enhancements that wrap boost::mutex
 also SimpleMutex

mvar.h
 This is based on haskell's MVar synchronization primitive:
 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurrent-MVar.html
 It is a thread-safe queue that can hold at most one object.
 You can also think of it as a box that can be either full or empty.

race.h
  RACECHECK

rwlock.h - read/write locks (RWLock)
  RWLock
  RWLockRecursive
  RWLockRecursiveNongreedy

spin_lock.h

synchronization.h 
  Notification, NotifyAll

threadlocal.h

thread_pool.h 

value.h
  Guarded
  DiagStr
  mapsf

goofy things that need reworking:
  list.h
  task.h