Revisiting Actor Programming in C++ (2015)

Re:Revisiting Actor Programming in C++ (2015) by brobdingnagians on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:36AM (#18486275)

I've looked into CAF, but haven't used it yet, is anyone using it successfully in a production environment? And what is the comparison with Erlang? My impression is that Erlang has better error handling capabilities, but CAF should be a bit faster, but was curious about a comparison from someone more knowledgeable.

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Re:Revisiting Actor Programming in C++ (2015) by eao197 on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:05AM (#18486439)

JIF: there is more than just CAF in C++ land [1]

There are at least QP/C++ [2] and SObjectizer [3].

All three frameworks are used in production, especially QP/C++.

Error handling in C++ actor frameworks is a different topic than such handling in Erlang or other safe language. Because if you do something like division by 0 or deference of null pointer in your C++ actor you will have a different result: in the best case the whole your application will crush, not just one actor.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/YauheniAkhotnikau/actor-model-and... [2] https://www.state-machine.com/qpcpp/ [3] https://stiffstream.com/en/products/sobjectizer.html

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Re:Revisiting Actor Programming in C++ (2015) by brobdingnagians on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @03:20PM (#18497338)

Thanks! Those are good resources

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