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Edge of Concurrency with Matt Massicotte

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The Purpose of Actors in Protecting Mutable State

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This chapter explores the concept of actors and their purpose in protecting mutable state, and explains their limitations in scenarios such as caching. It also compares actors to dispatch queues and discusses the need for a concurrency compatible lock called semaphore.

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