Questions tagged [actor]
The Actor model is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats "actors" as the universal primitives of concurrent digital computation: in response to a message that it receives, an actor can make local decisions, create more actors, send more messages, and determine how to respond to the next message received.
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Simple C++98 actor system (with event system) - think Doom or Unreal
I am finishing up an actor system (like those used in 90s games, like Doom, Unreal, etc.), which currently deals with damage and event handling.
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Erlang: pmap with max number of processes
I'm working through Joe Armstrong's Programming Erlang 2nd E. The book has exercises at the end of each chapter. Chapter 26, Question 5 is:
Write a function called ...
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Choosing names for “logic” and “implementation” traits in Stackable trait pattern
I have a trait that is to be mixed-in with existing types of Actor classes in Akka and offer a certain functionality.
To offer better maintenance, I am using the stackable trait pattern. The ...
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Akka actor to calculate a soccer league rank
I am new to Scala / Akka and this is my first attempt at writing an actor.
The task that I am trying to accomplish is: given a sequence of soccer matches, generate a ranking based on the usual rules ...
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Line count of each file in a given directory efficiently using akka
This is my first program in akka so I wanted to know if the program is efficient and is using the advantages of actor model.
The program's purpose is to scan a given directory for any files and print ...
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Implementing the Actor-Model in C#
After learning the basics (isolated state, communication and computation) of the the Actor-Model, I wrote my own implementation and I'm ready for a thorough code review.
You will be able to see that ...
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Finding the most frequent words in Scala using Akka
I'm new to akka and would like to get some feedback on my first attempt. The code takes text from stdin and finds the top 10 most frequently occurring words.
Specifically, I would like to know
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Simple actor system in F#
Any thoughts on my actor model here? Obviously it doesn't have implementation for concurrency as it stands- being completely synchronous, but it should be easy to make the send/become/create be sent ...
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Light Weight Actors
Edit: This was an absolute ignorance on my part which leads to hierarchical locks and can be implemented much cleaner (in fact the right way, in a mutable world) using a pipe-line of messages or ...
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Does this Actor implementation has synchronization problems?
As a part of a job test, I wrote following implementation of the Actor execution model:
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Review of simple Java Actor library
How can I improve this code?
Also available from git://github.com/edescourtis/actor.git .
Actor.java
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Is this Agent/Actor implementation issue free?
I implemented this Agent class for a project recently and was wondering if I could get some other eyes to look at it -- I'm currently the only developer where I work so I can't exactly ask someone ...
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Scala: Josephus problem with Actors
Another stab at the Josephus problem, this time using Actors. N people stand in a circle and every stepth person is eliminated ...
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Review an asynchronous/message-oriented library actor
I'd like to get input on a F# actor that coordinates receives around a blocking message buffer. The actor is a piece of code that continuously tries to fetch messages from Azure Service Bus.
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