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Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by amelius on Monday May 04, 2015 @03:31PM (#9488487)
I'm wondering about something. In big systems you'll see actors on different platforms communicating with eachother. For example, a javascript actor would communicate with a server actor. How would garbage collection work in that case? Would cycles be detected across machine boundaries?
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Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by digitalzombie on Monday May 04, 2015 @06:12PM (#9489580)
Perhaps you're thinking of some different concept of actor?

I don't recall Javascript supporting or having any library that would enable actor model of concurrency.

The general idea of actor model is that each actor is a process with a queue (mail box) and they talk to each other via msg. Javascript does not have such a thing nor does a server actor?

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