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Scala for the Impatient
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Scala for the Impatient

by Cay S. Horstmann
March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 36m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 20. Actors

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20.1 Creating and Starting Actors — page 290

20.2 Sending Messages — page 291

20.3 Receiving Messages — page 292

20.4 Sending Messages to Other Actors — page 293

20.5 Channels — page 294

20.6 Synchronous Messages and Futures — page 295

20.7 Thread Sharing — page 296

20.8 The Actor Life Cycle — page 299

20.9 Linking Actors — page 300

20.10 Designing with Actors — page 301

Exercises — page 302

Actors provide an alternative to the traditional lock-based architecture of concurrent programs. By avoiding locks and shared state, actors make it easier to design programs that work correctly, ...

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