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Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by lostcolony on Sunday May 03, 2015 @07:54PM (#9483579)
Especially if they're trying to include distribution (per a comment elsewhere). Pretty sure you can't have linearalizable messages between nodes without additional runtime cost compared to the non-linearalized case.
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Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by AnkhMorporkian on Monday May 04, 2015 @11:52AM (#9486923)
Distribution probably (almost definitely) kills the runtime cost, I can't imagine how it couldn't. I'm much more interested in the causality guarantee in the context of the distributed systems.
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Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by lostcolony on Monday May 04, 2015 @08:25PM (#9490173)
Oh, agreed. But it's doable, provided you don't mind losing availability (which is...an interesting choice for a programming language), and you don't mind the runtime cost.

But I agree, exactly what guarantees they're trying to provide (and is it opt in?) is an interesting question.

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