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A lot of people are using Akka for this instead: http://akkasource.org/ http://akkasource.org/ From http://www.scala-lang.org/node/4791 http://www.scala-lang.o
by timf 17y ago
A lot of people are using Akka for this instead: http://akkasource.org/ http://akkasource.org/
From http://www.scala-lang.org/node/4791 http://www.scala-lang.org/node/4791: "Akka is now 2-3 times faster than Scala Actors (both event and thread-based) in shootout benchmark."
- papaf 17y agoOne of the selling points of Scala is that actors were created as a library without special syntax or compiler support as described in this paper: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/128406 http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/128406 One of the advantages of this is that improved implementations can be provided by third parties such as Akka and Lift. Its a shame the current default implementation is so slow but for me this doesn't reflect badly on Scala the language.
- shpxnvz 17y agoLift is moving (or has moved?) from Scala actors to it's own actor implementation as well. http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/f789cc5cb304ea52 http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/...