Chapter 5Actors
An actor is like a rental carâquick and easy to get a hold of when you want one, and if it breaks down you donât bother trying to fix it; you just call the rental company and another one is delivered to you.
The actor model is a general-purpose concurrent programming model with particularly wide applicability. It targets both shared- and distributed-memory architectures, facilitates geographical distribution, and provides especially strong support for fault tolerance and resilience.
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