Actor Model

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Overview

The actor model is a mathematical model for concurrent computation. The model's primitive is the actor, which is an entity that sends and receives messages.

Concepts

Actor

An actor is a computation unit that maps each received message to:

  1. a finite set of messages sent to other actors
  2. a new behavior - which will govern the response to the next messages
  3. a finite set of new actors created

Message