Actors on Stage

@elise_huard NordicRuby 2011

Context

“Concurrency is hard”

“Shared and Mutable

State”

“Why Bother?”

Actors

“Actor Model” (1973)

“No Global State”“Actors”

“Partial Order of Execution”

“What is Important to me is not the Truth Outside myself, but the Truth Within myself.”

Konstantin Stanislavski

Ruby

“Rubinius Actors” “Celluloid”

“MRI”

Foreign lands

“Erlang”

“Scala and Clojure”

Epilogue

“Better Concurrency

Primitives in stdlib?”

Speaker

@elise_huardConference

NordicRuby 2011

Technical assistant and AnimationJoseph A Wilk

SponsorForward

PicturesModern Times (1936)Sherlock Jr (1924)Safety Last (1923)

A Woman of Affairs (1928)The Doll (1919)Intolerance (1926)Metropolis (1927)

Documentationhttp://www.delicious.com/elisehuard/concurrency

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