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Re:Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the... by gtani on Thursday May 02, 2013 @07:30PM (#5647906)
All well and good, another measure of "lightweight" that is often quoted is a little over 300 words of overhead/erlang BEAM process and 300 bytes/akka actor, do you have comparables for Quasar?

http://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/processes.html

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/general/actor-systems.... (300 bytes: way at the bottom

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Re:Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the... by pron on Thursday May 02, 2013 @10:08PM (#5648433)
Quasar actors consume even less memory. An idle actor occupies about 500 bytes.
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