Fun. I accidentally used this pattern (minus the timestamp, since it wasn't relevant for my use case) to implement a non-distributed data processing framework o

Fun. I accidentally used this pattern (minus the timestamp, since it wasn't relevant for my use case) to implement a non-distributed data processing framework on top of POE. It does work pretty well, however, you need to have a way for the actor to block until enough messages have arrived (sometimes buffered operations are the most efficient). I'm not sure how you would do that with the model proposed here.