12 Sep
2008
12 Sep
'08
3:34 p.m.
--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Bruce Eckel
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