From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2008-01-24T08:03:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Announcing Revactor: an Actor model implementation for R

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On Jan 22, 2008 8:02 PM, Kevin Williams <kevwil@gmail.com> wrote:

> I could go on and on about Fibers and lightweight concurrency
> (Erlang-esque) programming, but suffice it to say that I'm really,
> really excited to check this out. I think this is something you should
> blog about and explain until you're blue in the face, until we all get
> comfortable in concurrent programming. We can't just let all those CPU
> cores go to waste, can we? Thanks for injecting this into our
> consciousness.
>

There's some really great opportunities for Ruby in this regard,
specifically with Rubinius.  They recently added multi-VM support and
already support Actors.  I've hacked together an inter-VM bridge which
allows Actors to communicate across VMs (almost) as if they're in the same
VM.  With that sort of thing you can begin to achieve the dream of programs
that run N-times faster on N CPUs.

There is a blog for Revactor, BTW, although right now it only has the
release announcement.  I'll certainly start blogging about the future of
Actors on Ruby soon:

http://revactor.org/rss

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Tony Arcieri
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