The actor model was proposed decades ago (1973) by Carl Hewitt as a way to handle parallel processing in a high performance network — an environment that was not available at the time. As a quick summary an actor is a message… Continue Reading
The producer–consumer problem also known as the bounded-buffer problem is a classic example of a multi-process synchronisation problem. It is defined as follows: The Producer generates items in random time intervals and writes them into a bounded buffer. The Consumer consumes these items… Continue Reading