Thanks Meikel and Steve it is quite clear now! I will redirect
questions here should anybody ask.
~ Kai
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(send a f args)
Dispatch an action to an agent. Returns the agent immediately.
Subsequently, in a thread from a thread pool, the state of the agent
will be set to the value
Hi,
Am 30.06.2009 um 23:30 schrieb Kai:
Why is there a distinction between an action and a blocking action?
What kind of concerns arise when you send a potentially blocking
action to an agent and why is send-off better accommodated to deal
with it?
send serves the agent from a fixed
On Jun 30, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Kai wrote:
From scheduling I know that there are CPU-bound and IO-bound
processes. Perhaps send-off tends to hold off on yielding for longer
durations since it expects frequent interrupts. If this is the case, I
think it would be useful to elaborate on that in the
