[Eventmachine-talk] Erlang-like Processes

James Edward Gray II
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:09:35 -0000

On Aug 27, 3:10 pm, "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbageca... at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> All: I''ve added in the first implementation of Erlang-like
processes. It''s
> in the current EM head revision. Unit tests are in tests/test_spawn.rb.
>
> Thanks to James Edward Gray II for looking over the interface and making me
> realize that the first version really sucked. This one is very nice.

I owe Francis thanks for implement something I just said I wanted, and
then putting up with all my complaints about it as it grew.  The
results are alread great and he is my hero.

> Next steps are: 1) to improve the performance; 2) add message filtering
like
> Erlang has, which will allow you to just dump messages into a queue, and
one
> or processes will respond to it based on parameters of the message; and 3)
> allow you to send messages to spawned processes that are actually running
in
> other "real" processes, or on different machines.
>
> Comments? Suggestions?

My comment is that I''m excited.  Thanks!

James Edward Gray II