From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-01-24T23:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Announcing Revactor: an Actor model implementation for Ruby 1.9

This is very cool.  I've played with implementing something like this
and, even though it's conceptually simple, it's not trivial at all to
get the details right.

It's interestnig that you chose the make Actor inherit from Fiber.  I'm
not sure but I think one side-effect of this is that it makes it
impossible to run an actor in another process transparently (which, if
you're using a fully functional programming style, it should be possible
to do).

Have you done any performance measurements to compare against a threaded
model?

Paul