Actors process one message at a time. The classic pattern to process multiple messages is to have one coordinator actor front for a pool of consumer actors. If you use react then the consumer pool can be large but will still only use a small number of JVM threads. Here’s an example where I create … Read more
Then you’d have to encode the message type into the Actor ref, which would drastically decrease the value of something like the ActorRegistry. Also, with powerful mechanics like “become” (which is fundamental to the actor model) typing the messages is less valuable. Since Akka doesn’t leak memory when a message is not matched to the … Read more
It indicates a Symbol. Eg. cfr http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/api/scala/Symbol.html : the Scala term ‘mysym will invoke the constructor of the Symbol class in the following way: Symbol(“mysym”).
The Google Code project does reference a technical paper on the implementation of the ring buffer, however it is a bit dry, academic and tough going for someone wanting to learn how it works. However there are some blog posts that have started to explain the internals in a more readable way. There is an … Read more