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Mastering Rust - Second Edition
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Mastering Rust - Second Edition

by Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta
January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
554 pages
13h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Concurrency using the actor model

Another model of concurrency that is quite similar to the message passing model is the actor model. The actor model became popular with Erlang, a functional programming language popular in the telecom industry, known for its robustness and distributed by default nature.

The actor model is a conceptual model that implements concurrency at the type level using entities called actors. It was first introduced by Carl Eddie Hewitt in 1973. It removes the need for locks and synchronization and provides a cleaner way to introduce concurrency in a system. The actor model consists of three things:

  • Actor: This is a core primitive in the actor model. Each actor consists of its address, using which we can send messages ...
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