Any good implementation of Actors for C#?

c# .net concurrency actor
Borba picture Borba · Feb 2, 2010 · Viewed 34.7k times · Source

Is there any good implementation of actors concurrency model for .net/c#?

I have to optimize a c# routine and i think that actors model fits perfectly as a solution for my problem. Unfortunately i have experience only with scala implementation.

Answer

Roger Johansson picture Roger Johansson · Jan 2, 2014

.NET Actor Model frameworks:

Proto.Actor

  • Actors
  • Virtual Actors

https://github.com/AsynkronIT/protoactor-dotnet

Akka.NET

  • Actors

https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net

Microsoft Orleans

  • Virtual Actors

https://github.com/dotnet/orleans

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