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		ahoka 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1... I’m pretty sure it’s possible to deadlock an actor system.

rurban 26 days ago [–]

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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