August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 2m
English
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Introduction to the Actor Model
In the previous chapter, we the discussed patterns and techniques of advanced functional programming in modern programming languages. However, you may have noticed that we were always dealing with cases of sequential programming. The closest that we have ever gotten to real parallelism was when we discussed the Applicative type class.
In this chapter, we will go deeper into the topic of modern functional solutions for parallelism. The following are the topics that we will be covering in this chapter:
- Overview of parallelism solutions
- Traditional model synchronization on monitors
- The actor model as a replacement for the traditional model