Porting patterns from one language to another is really helpful.
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LostKobrakai
Take a look at the timestamps. It seems the logs are out of order in regards to time. Worker 3 requested work first.
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dimitarvp
The 3 workers were scheduled to start at the same time but the runtime chose to start worker #3 first. Pretty normal for async runtimes for things to be out of order when jobs start. Important part is that eventually everything converges… if you write your algorithm correctly, of course. 
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dimitarvp
Yeah, it’s educational. Though note that the BEAM VM has no mutexes per se, they can be emulated via various means. Cachex chose to do it with an :ets table and a Process dictionary. If you are curious here’s the meat of the implementation:
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