Given that tehre a lot of methods that use locks in the implementation, do syscalls etc, it eveyrthing looks like sync calls then all callsites could be a potentially blocking operation. :S
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 5:15 PM, 'Konstantinos Kougios' via Akka User List < akka-user@googlegroups.com> wrote: > hmm, I guess it is probably a bigger discussion. Does it matter if the > code is async? I think (maybe) this all relates to why typed-actors was > deprecated. I can't find the link about the discussion why it was > deprecated, anyone has it? I remember seeing something a few months ago. > > > On 11/11/15 16:00, Viktor Klang wrote: > > I think that's a matter of taste. Having async code look exactly like sync > code means that it's going ot be hard to see in the code whether you're > doing something sync or async. > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:39 PM, 'Konstantinos Kougios' via Akka User List > < <akka-user@googlegroups.com>akka-user@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> true, a new new-IO would have to be written :) and a lot of libraries to >> be modified which would not be easy. >> >> But the problem with blocking syscalls is true for actors too. And the >> developer needs to take extra care anyway. >> >> Maybe rephrase and say that continuations would make parallel code looks >> as if running serially which seems like a good thing to me. I tend to have >> serial processes in what I do and tend to simulate it with messages like >> >> actorA send msg X1 to B >> actorB do whatever with X1 and send C to actorA >> actorA act on C by completing the process >> >> effectively the above is (on actorA) >> >> actorB.do(X1) >> ... complete the process >> >> >> >> On 11/11/15 15:16, Viktor Klang wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:02 PM, 'Konstantinos Kougios' via Akka User >> List < <akka-user@googlegroups.com>akka-user@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >>> useful advice, thanks everyone. >>> >>> I wonder why continuations didn't catch up. continuations "blocking" >>> would be of no issue. I/O and even sleep(x) would be possible with no >>> overhead. >>> >> >> That is not *really* true—if you call blocking syscalls then you're >> calling blocking syscalls. >> >> >>> >>> >>> On 11/11/15 14:37, Richard Rodseth wrote: >>> >>> Also see >>> >>> >>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/general/actor-systems.html#Blocking_Needs_Careful_Management >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Guido Medina < <oxyg...@gmail.com> >>> oxyg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have actors such like *AccountProcessor* and *AccountPersistor*, >>>> AccountPersistor is a child of AccountProcessor and at its creation I pass >>>> a different dispatcher, assuming your code is in Scala here is better >>>> explained: >>>> >>>> <http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dispatchers.html> >>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dispatchers.html >>>> >>>> HTH, >>>> >>>> Guido. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Monday, November 9, 2015 at 10:23:38 PM UTC, Kostas kougios wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have some code that will take some time to execute. This code runs >>>>> in a few steps with each step "blocking" for some time to store data into >>>>> files. >>>>> >>>>> I am thinking in creating a new actor which can receive 1 message for >>>>> each step. 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