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The critical section problem in Erlang
Written on:July 31, 2009
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The programming language Erlang is based on micro-threads and asynchronous message passing. There is a (naive) belief that critical section problems cannot arise in languages based solely on message passing. The justification for this stand-point is the absence of mutex synchronization primitives, which is absolutely essential in shared-data based concurrent languages. As we will shortly see, it’s more about the design of the data operations than what means of thread…
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