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Actor model is not for parallel computing, it's for concurrency. It introduces unnecessary overhead for parallel computing and is not ideal for it. For concurre
by hopia 7y ago
Actor model is not for parallel computing, it's for concurrency. It introduces unnecessary overhead for parallel computing and is not ideal for it. For concurrency, on the other hand, it's probably superior to anything else out there.
- pdimitar 7y agoSure. Just saying that the BEAM lends itself to parallelism rather excellently. Conceptually you are correct but in practice -- in the BEAM at least -- those ideas can be converged.