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Actors on the JVM

By Dave, on March 22nd, 2011

The [[Actor Model]] is an interesting alternative to the standard threading model used in languages like Java. Its been around for a while, but Erlang has recently brought it into the mainstream. Roughly speaking, an actor corresponds to a Thread, except that actors do not share state. Actors communicate by sending messages, and [[Synchronization . . . → Read More: Actors on the JVM

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Implementing Structural Types

By Dave, on March 7th, 2011

Introduction

Over the last few months, I’ve been working on the type system underpinning Whiley.  A key feature is the use of [[Structural type system|structural typing]], rather than [[nominal typing]], and I’ve blogged about this quite a bit already (see [1][2][3][4]).  Over the weekend, I finally found time to work through all my thoughts . . . → Read More: Implementing Structural Types

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