Interesting. I have few to have an answer... but I could add only some comments, related to my pet projects, work.
I think that in Node.js world, we should separate: - local actor implementation - remote communication The second point could be resolved with RPC or something alike. Candidate: dnode. But we should manage disconecction, new node instances, etc... I tried the first point in my pet project: https://github.com/ajlopez/SimpleActors There is a local actors web crawler example. Now, there is a remote example, that could be implemented with dnode, but I am playing with another of my projects for remote object ("dog fooding" ;-) But, we could have message passing, without having an actor an explicit reference to another actor. I think that is the way of Storm http://storm-project.net/ in Java World. A simple implementation with local web crawler example: https://github.com/ajlopez/SimpleStorm with one spout and many kind of bolts. I should add the "distributed" ingredient to such topology. A two? three? pipe problem? (no pun intended) ;*) But another way, without an explicit topology, only messages, and node instances that communicates what kind of messages they can process: https://github.com/ajlopez/AjFabriqNode I guess this way has more resilience to the add/remove of running node instances. Interesting topic Paul! Angel "Java" Lopez http://ajlopez.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/ajlopez On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Paul Miller <paulpmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, as you know, erlang is great because of this one. > > Are there any great actor model implementations currently that will allow > you to spawn tens of thousands of processes without bullshit? > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
