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Re:Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the... by pron on Thursday May 02, 2013 @06:27PM (#5647600)
We intend to provide distribution on top of Galaxy (http://puniverse.github.io/galaxy/).
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Re:Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the... by alexatkeplar on Thursday May 02, 2013 @06:39PM (#5647662)
Is Pulsar + Galaxy + Zookeeper + presumably some new code/project still simpler than Akka? It sounds kind of complicated.
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Re:Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the... by pron on Friday May 03, 2013 @07:10AM (#5649668)
Galaxy doesn't require Zookeeper (it's an optional dependency). And Galaxy isn't there just to support Quasar/Pulsar. It's there to support a distributed, concurrent, consistent in-memory database. Actors are just part of the story.

To simplify, Quasar/Pulsar + Galaxy is, in Erlang parlance, like Erlang + Mnesia or Erlang + Riak (only with a consistent database that assists in parallelization)

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Re:Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the... by alexatkeplar on Friday May 03, 2013 @07:55AM (#5649768)
Cool, thanks for clarifying pron. Looking forward to giving it a spin!
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