Pony – High Performance Actor Programming

Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by Matthias247 on Sunday May 03, 2015 @06:41PM (#9483376)

I guess the claim was that such an erlang actor would run forever when nobody sends it a message to stop it. And with pony it would be detected that the actor is no longer reachable and it would be automatically stopped.

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Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by SnowyOwl on Sunday May 03, 2015 @07:50PM (#9483568)

Indeed, Pony can automatically detect actors with empty stacks and message queues, also when these are part of a cycle.

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Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by rdtsc on Sunday May 03, 2015 @08:44PM (#9483730)

Erlang has something like that as well:

http://erldocs.com/17.3/erts/erlang.html#hibernate/3

Hibernate compresses the current memory, save it and then kill the active process. Then if a message is sent to it, it "wakes" up.

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