--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Bruce Eckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, let me throw another idea out here. When Allen Holub
> first
> explained Actors to me, he made the statement that Actors
> prevent
> deadlocks. In my subsequent understanding of them, I
> haven't seen
> anything that would disagree with that -- as long as you
> only use
> Actors and nothing else for parallelism.
>
As I believe it is the case that you can emulate shared resources, and locks to
control concurrent access to them, using the actor model, I can't see how this
can be true.
rcg
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