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Actor frameworks for the JVM platform: a comparative analysis

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Rajesh K. Karmani,

Gul AghaAuthors Info & Claims

PPPJ '09: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java

Pages 11 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/1596655.1596658

Published: 27 August 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The problem of programming scalable multicore processors has renewed interest in message-passing languages and frameworks. Such languages and frameworks are typically actor-oriented, implementing some variant of the standard Actor semantics. This paper analyzes some of the more significant efforts to build actor-oriented frameworks for the JVM platform. It compares the frameworks in terms of their execution semantics, the communication and synchronization abstractions provided, and the representations used in the implementations. It analyzes the performance of actor-oriented frameworks to determine the costs of supporting different actor properties on JVM. The analysis suggests that with suitable optimizations, standard Actor semantics and some useful communication and synchronization abstractions may be supported with reasonable efficiency on the JVM platform.

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Actor frameworks for the JVM platform: a comparative analysis
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Concurrent computing methodologies
    1. Concurrent programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Concurrent programming structures
      2. Language types
        Concurrent programming languages

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