Task: Atomic updates
Go: package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "math/rand"
    "sync"
    "time"
)

const nBuckets = 10

type bucketList struct {
    b [nBuckets]int 

    
    
    tc [2]int

    sync.Mutex 
}



const (
    idOrder = iota
    idChaos
)

const initialSum = 1000 


func newBucketList() *bucketList {
    var bl bucketList
    
    for i, dist := nBuckets, initialSum; i > 0; {
        v := dist / i
        i--
        bl.b[i] = v
        dist -= v
    }
    return &bl
}


func (bl *bucketList) bucketValue(b int) int {
    bl.Lock() 
    r := bl.b[b]
    bl.Unlock()
    return r
}


func (bl *bucketList) transfer(b1, b2, a int, ux int) {
    
    bl.Lock()
    
    if a > bl.b[b1] {
        a = bl.b[b1]
    }
    
    bl.b[b1] -= a
    bl.b[b2] += a
    bl.tc[ux]++ 
    bl.Unlock()
}


func (bl *bucketList) snapshot(s *[nBuckets]int, tc *[2]int) {
    bl.Lock()
    *s = bl.b
    *tc = bl.tc
    bl.tc = [2]int{} 
    bl.Unlock()
}

var bl = newBucketList()

func main() {
    
    go order() 
    go chaos() 
    buddha()   
}







func order() {
    r := rand.New(rand.NewSource(time.Now().UnixNano()))
    for {
        b1 := r.Intn(nBuckets)
        b2 := r.Intn(nBuckets - 1)
        if b2 >= b1 {
            b2++
        }
        v1 := bl.bucketValue(b1)
        v2 := bl.bucketValue(b2)
        if v1 > v2 {
            bl.transfer(b1, b2, (v1-v2)/2, idOrder)
        } else {
            bl.transfer(b2, b1, (v2-v1)/2, idOrder)
        }
    }
}


func chaos() {
    r := rand.New(rand.NewSource(time.Now().Unix()))
    for {
        b1 := r.Intn(nBuckets)
        b2 := r.Intn(nBuckets - 1)
        if b2 >= b1 {
            b2++
        }
        bl.transfer(b1, b2, r.Intn(bl.bucketValue(b1)+1), idChaos)
    }
}


func buddha() {
    var s [nBuckets]int
    var tc [2]int
    var total, nTicks int

    fmt.Println("sum  ---updates---    mean  buckets")
    tr := time.Tick(time.Second / 10)
    for {
        <-tr
        bl.snapshot(&s, &tc)
        var sum int
        for _, l := range s {
            if l < 0 {
                panic("sob") 
            }
            sum += l
        }
        
        
        
        total += tc[0] + tc[1]
        nTicks++
        fmt.Printf("%d %6d %6d %7d  %3d\n", sum, tc[0], tc[1], total/nTicks, s)
        if sum != initialSum {
            panic("weep") 
        }
    }
}

Python: from __future__ import with_statement 
import threading
import random
import time

terminate = threading.Event()

class Buckets:
    def __init__(self, nbuckets):
        self.nbuckets = nbuckets
        self.values = [random.randrange(10) for i in range(nbuckets)]
        self.lock = threading.Lock()

    def __getitem__(self, i):
        return self.values[i]

    def transfer(self, src, dst, amount):
        with self.lock:
            amount = min(amount, self.values[src])
            self.values[src] -= amount
            self.values[dst] += amount

    def snapshot(self):
        
        with self.lock:
            return self.values[:]

def randomize(buckets):
    nbuckets = buckets.nbuckets
    while not terminate.isSet():
        src = random.randrange(nbuckets)
        dst = random.randrange(nbuckets)
        if dst!=src:
            amount = random.randrange(20)
            buckets.transfer(src, dst, amount)

def equalize(buckets):
    nbuckets = buckets.nbuckets
    while not terminate.isSet():
        src = random.randrange(nbuckets)
        dst = random.randrange(nbuckets)
        if dst!=src:
            amount = (buckets[src] - buckets[dst]) // 2
            if amount>=0: buckets.transfer(src, dst, amount)
            else: buckets.transfer(dst, src, -amount)

def print_state(buckets):
    snapshot = buckets.snapshot()
    for value in snapshot:
        print '%2d' % value,
    print '=', sum(snapshot)


buckets = Buckets(15)


t1 = threading.Thread(target=randomize, args=[buckets])
t1.start()


t2 = threading.Thread(target=equalize, args=[buckets])
t2.start()


try:
    while True:
        print_state(buckets)
        time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt: 
    terminate.set()


t1.join()
t2.join()