• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Oct 12 2009
• Jeremie Pelletier <jeremiep gmail.com> Oct 12 2009
• Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Oct 12 2009

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Sean Kelly:

 For what it's worth, I've been experimenting with message-passing for
 one leg of the API.  I decided to copy the Erlang API because it's very
 simple and easy to build fancier stuff on top of.


You may also want to take a look at how actors are in Scala (I think they are a
little different than usual, so I think they even have a different name,
something like Agents, or something like that):
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242

Bye,
bearophile

Jeremie Pelletier <jeremiep gmail.com> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 Sean Kelly:
 
 For what it's worth, I've been experimenting with message-passing for
 one leg of the API.  I decided to copy the Erlang API because it's very
 simple and easy to build fancier stuff on top of.


 You may also want to take a look at how actors are in Scala (I think they are
a little different than usual, so I think they even have a different name,
something like Agents, or something like that):
 http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242
 
 Bye,
 bearophile


I really like the actor model, it can scale very well to thousands of 
concurrent actors, I know the Unreal engine use them for all scriptable 
entities and can process thousands of them per frame.

Bartosz also had an entry about actors:
http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/on-actors-and-casting/

This is definitely one concurrent model I want to see in D.

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
 bearophile wrote:
 Sean Kelly:

 For what it's worth, I've been experimenting with message-passing for
 one leg of the API.  I decided to copy the Erlang API because it's very
 simple and easy to build fancier stuff on top of.


 You may also want to take a look at how actors are in Scala (I think 
 they are a little different than usual, so I think they even have a 
 different name, something like Agents, or something like that):
 http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242

 Bye,
 bearophile


 I really like the actor model, it can scale very well to thousands of 
 concurrent actors, I know the Unreal engine use them for all scriptable 
 entities and can process thousands of them per frame.
 
 Bartosz also had an entry about actors:
 http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/on-actors-and-casting/
 
 This is definitely one concurrent model I want to see in D.


Same here. If anyone would like to start putting together an actor API, 
that would be great.

Andrei