Lockfree hashtables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

The other day I bumped into some ideas about lockfree hashtables.
Are these of any use in PostgreSQL?

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2007/03/a_nonblocking_h.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2139967204534450862

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