Is there a design document for Scala 2.8 Actors, like it is for 2.7?
Scala Actors: Unifying Thread-based and Event-based Programming
Is there one for Akka?
The "Scala Improvement Documents Library" doesn't mention Actors.
Is there a design document for Scala 2.8 Actors, like it is for 2.7?
Scala Actors: Unifying Thread-based and Event-based Programming
Is there one for Akka?
The "Scala Improvement Documents Library" doesn't mention Actors.
Regarding Akka, I didn't find a design document per se, but the recent blog post series "Thinking Asynchronous - Domain Modeling using Akka Transactors" from Debasish Ghosh are close enough.
Here are some of the salient points in the implementation ..
Map
that gets persisted in Redis. Here we store all accounts that the clients open hashed by the account number. [...]atomic{}
and the underlying STM
will take care of the rest.