Interesting old thread comparing actors to software transactional memory (STM): https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/175tjj/stm_vs_actors/ https://www.red

Interesting old thread comparing actors to software transactional memory (STM): https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/175tjj/stm_vs_actors/ https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/175tjj/stm_vs_acto... Seems like pre-emptive actor-based concurrency is simple to implement using STM, but much harder to implement STM with actors.