12 Sep
2008
12 Sep
'08
3:34 p.m.
--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Bruce Eckel <bruceteckel@gmail.com> 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