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Mutual exclusion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_exclusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_exclusion Are you saying that the Erlang VM enforces
by glockenspielen 8y ago
Mutual exclusion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_exclusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_exclusion
Are you saying that the Erlang VM enforces mutual exclusion within its Actors, and that mutual exclusion should not be enforced within Actors?
- carlehewitt 8y agoEvery Actor has a region of mutual exclusion. However, the region of mutual exclusion can have holes so that * activities can be suspended and later resumed * other activities can use the region of mutual exclusion while a message is being processed by another Actor For example, a readers/writer scheduler for a database must be processing multiple activities concurrently, which is very difficult to implement in Erlang.