We're trying to perform some tasks sequentially and i was wondering if an actor or a Mutex is better suited for this case. There'd be many queues and each of them will be processing few tasks.

a mutex is the coroutines version of a lock that is non-re-entrant

I know the difference between them but I'm not sure which one is better for this specific case. I'm not very enthusiastic about having hundreds of channels.

do you need multiple queues? or a single queue that distributes work to multiple “workers”

Multiple queues

okay yeah then an actor seems appropriate

Possibly, to save memory

(an actor would just be a coroutine that maintains a queue of work to be done in the form of a channel)

Yes

yeah, an actor definitely seems appropriate then

I see, "the state" is a good point. Thanks for the input