Re:Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performan...
by alfanerd on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:45AM
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I think you only need one queue per actor? And then one worker per CPU core? I believe that how Erlang does it, and do millions of actors without any issues...
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Re:Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performan...
by gpderetta on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:52AM
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Yes, but now you have contention on the queue.
Re:Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performan...
by ramchip on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:34AM
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The way Erlang does it is to use buckets so it looks like a single queue to the user code but really is more like multiple queues behind the scene. Scales extremely well. It's certainly not "just moving a pointer to a piece of shared memory" though...
https://www.erlang.org/blog/parallel-signal-sending-optimiza...