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Re:Scala Actors: Unifying thread-based and event-based progr... by DanWaterworth on Sunday January 11, 2015 @04:26PM (#8871387)
If you have problems with contention, you can use a library like this [1], that allows you to perform transactions (with the restriction that you must know the variables you may touch ahead of time) without deadlocking or livelocking.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/blocking-transactions

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