On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Haddock <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2015 11:24:21 UTC+1 schrieb lutzh: >> >> Hi Haddock, >> >> Fibers as such do not prevent you from blocking. Pretty much like in >> Akka, if you use blocking I/O you block the underlying thread, which is >> then of course not available for other fibers or actors. So async I/O it >> is. >> The fibers approach to it is to provide a FiberAsync wrapper, see the >> section "Transforming Asynchronous Operations into Fiber-Blocking >> Operations, and Fiber-Blocking IO" in the blog you refer to. >> >> This is also a nice example for fibers value proposition - it provides >> this wrapper to allow you to continue to program in a sequential / >> imperative style, without using callbacks. >> > > "without using callback". Exactly, this is the point. > > >> This is true for fibers in general, the whole idea is that you introduce >> a sub-thread level unit of concurrency, but don't change the programming >> model - much like goroutines in go. >> > > "much like goroutines in go". Yep, this is the point ;-). > > When using Akka, you opted for a different model altogether already - >> async messaging. Therefore I don't think it would be a good fit, it would >> not be idiomatic Akka, in fact it would be a programming model >> contradicting Akka's ideas. >> > > I see the point. Agree. > > >> To me, doing async I/O either with Future-based APIs and pipeTo, or using >> Reactive Streams, seems a much better fit for Akka. >> > > What's in the case of Akka the way to prevent threads (that is actors) > from blocking when doing blocking IO (querying databases, doing REST calls, > reading from files, etc.)? Go through NIO or is there some stuff provided > for this? >
Quasar doesn't prevent that either, they just offer safer, albeit familiar, alternatives. > > Thanks for any answers. > Regards, Haddock. > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Cheers, √ -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
