Where can I find Actor-based solutions to common concurrency problems?

2 points by megaman821 16y ago ↗ HN

I was looking to compare threaded solutions using locks of common concurrency problems like dining philosophers and sleeping barber to actor based solutions in a language like Erlang.

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gtani 16y ago ↗

Don't know if this answers question, but there's lots of erlang vs. scala analyses, many of them address: number process/threads you can spawn, message size, async vs. synch, ..

http://www.vijaykandy.com/archives/59

http://blog.ribomation.com/2009/08/06/generating-prime-numbe...

http://weblog.hypotheticalabs.com/?p=452

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers

mikhailfranco 16y ago ↗

Santa Claus in Erlang from ROK:

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/santa/index.htm

mikhailfranco 16y ago ↗

Sleeping Barber discussion here:

http://bestinclass.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/scala-vs-clojure...

The spec is a bit vague, but quick 'n' dirty Erlang code here:

http://snipt.org/ngni