[swift-evolution] [Concurrency] async/await + actors

[Chris Lattner]

On Aug 19, 2017, at 2:02 AM, Susan Cheng <susan.doggie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi chris,
> 
> is a actor guarantee always process the messages in one by one?
> so, can it assume that never being multiple threads try to modify the state at the same time?

Yep, that’s the idea.

> P.S. i have implemented similar idea before:
> 
> https://github.com/SusanDoggie/Doggie/blob/master/Sources/Doggie/Thread/Thread.swift <https://github.com/SusanDoggie/Doggie/blob/master/Sources/Doggie/Thread/Thread.swift>
> https://github.com/SusanDoggie/Doggie/blob/master/Sources/Doggie/SDTriggerNode.swift <https://github.com/SusanDoggie/Doggie/blob/master/Sources/Doggie/SDTriggerNode.swift>

Cool.  That’s one of the other interesting things about the actor model.  We can prototype and build it as a completely library feature to get experience with the runtime model, then move to language support (providing the additional safety) when things seem to work well in practice.

-Chris


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