on Wed, 4 Oct 2017 00:16:14 +0200 Benjamin Garrigues < benjamin.garrig...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Same goes for actors and blocking calls : if you're dealing with a few coarsed > grained actors that handle a large state and communicate over an unreliable > medium ( such as a network) , you're going to have a very different need than > if all your actors run on the same cpu and each handle a very small part of > your logic and data. In the second case you're using actors for thread safety > and not really to manage failure or lag in actor to actor communications. exactly my thoughts. unreliably UDP-style "best effort" delivery approach which is at the core of actors and "thread safety problems and their solutions on a single or multi core CPU box" are two different tasks at hand IMHO. unless i misunderstand something fundamental here, which is of course possible. Mike
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