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Message passing circumvents locking, but not necessarily synchronization and I would not describe using it as easy. The difficulty in concurrency is maintaining
by pashields 17y ago
Message passing circumvents locking, but not necessarily synchronization and I would not describe using it as easy. The difficulty in concurrency is maintaining an understanding of all possible states at any given point and message passing doesn't fix that.
tl;dr you can deadlock in occam