High Level Concurrency with JRuby and Akka Actors « Metaphysical DeveloperMany developers are used to low-level concurrency primitives, such as locks, monitors and semaphores. Java also has higher level concurrency utilities such as Atomic Objects and Fork/Join framework. Such primitives still require a lot of attention to shared variables, and are very easy to get wrong. Ilya Grigorik recently discussed other models of concurrency on his recent post Concurrency with Ac
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