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Actors in Scala 14th Edition
Author(s): Philipp Haller (Author), Frank Sommers (Author)
- Publisher: Artima Inc
- Publication Date: 31 Jan. 2012
- Edition: 14th
- Language: English
- Print length: 521 pages
- ISBN-10: 0981531652
- ISBN-13: 9780981531656
Book Description
Recent trends in computer architecture make concurrency and parallelism an essential ingredient of efficient program execution. The actor model of concurrency allows you to express real-world concurrency in a natural way using concurrent processes that communicate via asynchronous messages. Scala is a programming language for the Java virtual machine, providing excellent support for both object-oriented and functional programming. By including a powerful actor framework in its standard library, Scala offers a compelling approach to tackle concurrent programming. Scala's actors let you apply the actor concurrency model to the JVM, enabling real-world solutions that are efficient, scalable, and robust. Published by Artima, this is the first book on Scala's actors, co-authored by the creator and lead maintainer, Philipp Haller, and Frank Sommers. Starting with the fundamentals of the actor concurrency model, this book offers a comprehensive tutorial on practical programming with actors in Scala. It enables you to leverage the full power of today's and tomorrow's multi-core processors by describing both basic and advanced features of Scala's actor framework in-depth.
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Recent trends in computer architecture make concurrency and parallelism an essential ingredient of efficient program execution. The actor model of concurrency allows you to express real-world concurrency in a natural way using concurrent processes that communicate via asynchronous messages.Scala is a programming language for the Java virtual machine, providing excellent support for both object-oriented and functional programming. By including a powerful actor framework in its standard library, Scala offers a compelling approach to tackle concurrent programming. Scala's actors let you apply the actor concurrency model to the JVM, enabling real-world solutions that are efficient, scalable, and robust.Published by Artima, this is the first book on Scala's actors, co-authored by the creator and lead maintainer, Philipp Haller, and Frank Sommers. Starting with the fundamentals of the actor concurrency model, this book offers a comprehensive tutorial on practical programming with actors in Scala. It enables you to leverage the full power of today's and tomorrow's multi-core processors by describing both basic and advanced features of Scala's actor framework in-depth.
About the Author
Philipp Haller is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL (Switzerland), working with Martin Odersky on the Scala programming language, libraries, and tools. He received his Dipl. Inform. degree (with distinction) in 2006 from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). Among his research interests are programming abstractions for concurrency, as well as type systems to check their safety. Philipp created Scala Actors, a library for efficient, high-level concurrent programming.Frank Sommers is an editor at Artima, and president of Autospaces, Inc., a company specializing in automotive finance software. After almost 15 years of working with Java, Frank started programming in Scala a few years ago, and became an instant fan of the language. Frank is an active writer in the area of information technology and computing. His main interests are parallel and distributed computing, data management, programming languages, cluster and cloud computing, open-source software, and online user communities.
