Do you need to Depend on Akka for this?

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Implementation of CSP constructions (Communication Sequence Process, i.e. go-like channels) in scala

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Do you need to Depend on Akka for this? #16

Closed sirinath closed 6 years ago

sirinath commented 7 years ago

Do you need to rely on Akka for this. Perhaps you can have a simple underlying layer to implement the functionality you really use. Perhaps something like a mailbox processor. May be you can have your own lightweight actors also. Some issues with Akka is:

primitive specialization issues
large dependency
higher overhead
no control over memory and possible GC pauses once you enter the Akka API

rssh commented 7 years ago

TODO: think about scope and motivation for akka-less version. Now akka