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The actor model is a mechanism to deal with concurrent computation. An actor (autonomous concurrent object) is the primitive unit of computation. Actors are executed asynchronously of each other and have the following:

Advantages of Scala for Concurrency

Up till now, we have always been writing about how we want something to work atomically and with a lot of bloat code and knowledge of what goes on in the background. For example, just a simple thread-safe transfer method can quickly become very complicated: