[Haskell-cafe] Best Actor system?

[Carter Schonwald]

I'm inclined to agree with Chris,
in the shared heap setting, you really should try those other approaches
first!


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com>wrote:

> Have you looked at the Async library or Marlow's book?
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async
>
> http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/
>
> Neither involve actors but I think many Haskellers, myself included, are
> skeptical of actor/agent systems. I've written a fair bit of Clojure and
> Scala code and don't much care for the model.
>
> If all you really need is message passing/dispatch, you don't strictly
> speaking need actors. Channels, messages, and dataflow might very well be
> enough. Perhaps look into functional reactive programming as well?
>
> Cheers, hope this helps.
>
> --- Chris
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:29 AM, james <james at mansionfamily.plus.com>wrote:
>
>> Having been introduced to actors by looking at Erlang, I discovered Akka.
>>
>> It seems that the performance is pretty impressive and I like the model.
>>
>> There seem to be several basic Actor libraries in Hackage, but they don't
>> seem
>> to be very actively developed.
>>
>> I'm more interested in the model for programming within a single runtime
>> than I am for distributed systems, but message and dispatch performance
>> definitely is important.
>>
>> Can anyone share experiences with the different packages?  Is any one
>> of them stand-out?
>>
>> Thanks
>> James
>>
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