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Because actors were invented to overcome deadlocks caused by mutexes. See page 137. With mutexes you can forget concurrency safety.


I’m pretty sure it’s possible to deadlock an actor system.


A bad one, yes. But it was esp. invented to prevent the mutual exclusion problem. And good actor systems do so.




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