[akka-user] Re: possibly stupid question about ordering

2013-12-20 Thread Tim Pigden
Ok to answer my own question from the docs Please note that this rule is *not transitive*: Actor A sends message M1 to actor C Actor A then sends message M2 to actor B Actor B forwards message M2 to actor C Actor C may receive M1 and M2 in any order Causal transitive ordering would imply that

[akka-user] Re: possibly stupid question about ordering

2013-12-20 Thread Ryan Tanner
No. For one, actor A may have a bunch of messages in its mailbox while actor B has none, meaning A will have to process all those before processing 'x' but B will process 'y' immediately. On Friday, December 20, 2013 9:08:34 AM UTC-7, Tim Pigden wrote: > > Hi in the following > > a ! x > b ! y