himilsbach

A tiny actor library for Clojure.

Usage

(require '[himilsbach.core :as him])
(let [actor (him/new
              [:ping timestamp] (let [now (System/nanoTime)
                                      dt (/ (- now timestamp) 1000)]
                                  (println (him/id self) "pinged" dt "μs ago"))
              [:die]            (do
                                  (println (him/id self) "gracefully dies")
                                  (die))
              something         (println (him/id self) "received" something))]
  (him/start actor)
  (him/send! actor :ping (System/nanoTime))
  (him/send! actor "some" :unexpected 'values)
  (him/send! actor :die))

An example with a full graph of actors sending pings to each other can be found in test/himilsbach/test/benchmark.clj. Run it with

lein run -m himilsbach.test.benchmark

Himilsbach is available on Clojars.

[himilsbach "0.1.0"]

Documentation generated using Marginalia is available.

Related work

• clojure_actors – actors implemented on top of Clojure agents
• Jobim – an actors library for Clojure
• Rich Hickey, Message Passing and Actors

Copyrights

Copyright (c) 2012–2013 Jan Stępień

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