From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2008-02-12T08:59:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Actors and Concurrency

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:18:03 +0900, fedzor <fedzor@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I was messing with actors today, and I found that I couldn't get
> an actor to run concurrently with the main thread. Am I just wishing
> fibers are something they're not?

To a point.  However, note that if you want an actor to sleep for one second
and permit other actors to proceed, you can just receive with a timeout of
one second, rather than using sleep.  Receive is how revactor actors transfer
control to one another.

Of course, if the main thread exits (as it would in your code), then the
spawned actor won't have a chance to finish.

-mental