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My point was that the actor model has the semantics of local mutable state. The fact that an actor model language is compiled for a von Neumann machine is irrel
by senderista 6y ago
My point was that the actor model has the semantics of local mutable state. The fact that an actor model language is compiled for a von Neumann machine is irrelevant to my point.
- pdimitar 6y agoOkay, that's true, but especially in Erlang's BEAM VM the mutable state's access is serialized / centralized. An actor's state is not a globally modifiable volatile variable a la the C/C++ ones.
- eru 6y agoYes. Though I don't think anyone ever suggested the actor model (or Erlang) was doing C/C++ craziness.