Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Great slides on the Actor Model by Steve Dekorte of Io fame
Steve Dekorte, C4 2006: Actors, a Unifying Pattern for Scalable Concurrency
You've probably noticed all the del.icio.us links to Actor Model and programming language stuff. If you want a good summary, I think these slides are great. If you aren't too interested in the Io language stuff, you can gloss over those slides, you'll find "big picture" talk before and after that section.
This stuff is going to be my life for the foreseeable future.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Milestone
Today I installed VMWare Fusion, downloaded an Ubuntu server image, and made three copies of it.
I wanted one image to test the io language, one to test the Rubinius virtual machine for Ruby, and one for testing the Scala language.
So far I have the io and rubinius VMs up and running. I haven't tested any io code yet, but I have tested some sample code that uses Actors against the Rubinius VM.
I'm doing this for my term paper for CSC464 which is about the Actor Model.
links for 2008-04-02
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Which is what makes the situation with Java so bad. Not only is the language bad, the VM is fatally flawed when it comes to actor style concurrency (which is why for all its niceties, Scala will suffer the same problems as Java).




