Top "Actor" questions

Programming model distinguished by ubiquitous asynchronous communication.

Is F# really faster than Erlang at spawning and killing processes?

Updated: This question contains an error which makes the benchmark meaningless. I will attempt a better benchmark comparing F# and …

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How does I/O work in Akka?

How does the actor model (in Akka) work when you need to perform I/O (ie. a database operation)? It …

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How to rename actors in draw.io

I am using draw.io online tool for drawing UML diagrams. When I am dragging an Actor from left panel …

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How are akka actors implemented on underlying threads?

Given an execution context and a thread pool, how are akka/scala actors scheduled/implemented on that?

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Sleeping actors?

What's the best way to have an actor sleep? I have actors set up as agents which want to maintain …

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How to deal with long initialization of an Akka child actor?

I have an actor which creates a child actor to perform some lengthy computations. The problem is that the initialization …

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How are the multiple Actors implementation in Scala different?

With the release of Scala 2.9.0, the Typesafe Stack was also announced, which combines the Scala language with the Akka framework. …

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How to use Akka-TestKit TestProbe correctly?

I expanded the example from http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/testing.html#Using_Multiple_Probe_Actors. import …

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