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1. rurban+(OP)
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2026-02-02 09:01:52
Because actors were invented to overcome deadlocks caused by mutexes. See page 137. With mutexes you can forget concurrency safety.
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2. ahoka+io
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2026-02-02 12:48:56
>>rurban+(OP)
I’m pretty sure it’s possible to deadlock an actor system.
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3. rurban+ee1
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2026-02-02 17:28:11
>>ahoka+io
A bad one, yes. But it was esp. invented to prevent the mutual exclusion problem. And good actor systems do so.
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