Top "Actor" questions

How does LMAX's disruptor pattern work?

I am trying to understand the disruptor pattern. I have watched the InfoQ video and tried to read their paper. …

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When to use actors instead of messaging solutions such as WebSphere MQ or Tibco Rendezvous?

I've already read the question and answers to What design decisions would favour Scala's Actors instead of JMS?. Usually, we …

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Actions of Actors in libgdx

I have made my Actor, but I am unclear on how to take advantage of the action and act methods. …

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Any good implementation of Actors for C#?

Is there any good implementation of actors concurrency model for .net/c#? I have to optimize a c# routine and …

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Scala pattern matching confusion with Option[Any]

I have the following Scala code. import scala.actors.Actor object Alice extends Actor { this.start def act{ loop{ react { …

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Akka in Scala, exclamation mark and question mark

What is the difference between exclamation mark (!) and question mark (?) when sending messages to Actors? myActor ! Hello(value1) myActor ? Hello(…

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How can i check if an Akka actor exists (akka 2.2)?

I have a java object which is not an actor which selects actors from an actor system with actorSelection(Path)). …

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What are the language and product alternatives to Akka?

Right now I'm looking at Play Framework and like it a lot. One of the parts heavy advertised amongst the …

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Which Actor model library/framework for python and Erlang-like?

I am looking for an easy-to-learn Actor library or framework for Python 2.x. I have tried Candygram and Twisted but …

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Actor pattern - what it exactly constitutes

I am doing some objective-C / iOS development and have heard several references to the Actor pattern. In Big Nerd Ranch …

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