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Re:OTP 23 by senderista on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:06PM (#23181188)
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.
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Re:OTP 23 by pdimitar on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:18PM (#23181373)
Okay, 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.
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Re:OTP 23 by eru on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:44AM (#23189275)
Yes.

Though I don't think anyone ever suggested the actor model (or Erlang) was doing C/C++ craziness.

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