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Well, it all depends on what you mean by message passing. If you mean call a method or a function passing it a value type, then yes you can do message passing i
by asabil 14y ago
Well, it all depends on what you mean by message passing. If you mean call a method or a function passing it a value type, then yes you can do message passing in any language.
If on the other hand you mean passing data between completely isolated active entities (processes) that get scheduled for execution independently based on available CPU cores, I/O operations, receiver mailbox size... Then you need an multitasking operating system, which is in fact what the Erlang VM is.
- yummyfajitas 14y agoIf on the other hand you mean passing data between completely isolated active entities (processes) that get scheduled for execution independently based on available CPU cores, I/O operations, receiver mailbox size... Or you can use Python multiprocessing on Linux, or Scala actors, or Haskell actors, or Clojure agents...