On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Alex Elsayed <eternal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Forgot to send this to the list. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alex Elsayed <eternal...@gmail.com> ... > It's also CPS based, which fits pretty well. > Here's another, one that might fit more readily with perlesque/CLR: Actors that Unify Threads and Events pdf: http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/doc/haller07actorsunify.pdf slides: http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/doc/ActorsUnify.pdf In this paper we present an abstraction of actors that combines the benefits of thread-based and event-based concurrency. Threads support blocking operations such as system I/O, and can be executed on multiple processor cores in parallel. Event-based computation, on the other hand, is more lightweight and scales to large numbers of actors. We also present a set of combinators that allows a flexible composition of these actors. Scala actors are implemented on the JVM, but our techniques can be applied to all multi-threaded VMs with a similar architecture, such as the CLR.
