Actually, I don’t think anything could make multithreading less difficulty for a developer, short of ancient Aztec magic. You know, because the Aztecs were just awesome with the whole concept of hardware threads and “Tony” units.

Unable to tap into whatever the Aztecs knew, Microsoft has come up with its own solution. Well, for the Xbox 360 anyway. Included in the August 2007 SDK for the console was a new library, called XMCore.

Microsoft’s Pete Isensee detailed the features of the new library at Game Connect last weekend. To put it simply, XMCore will make “lock-free programming” easier for game developers.

So what the hell is lock-free programming?