Different Scala Actor Implementations Overview

Question

I\'m trying to find the \'right\' actor implementation. I realized there is a bunch of them and it\'s a bit confusing to pick one. Personally I\'m especially interested in r

Answer 1

Scala 2.7.7. vs 2.8 after The Scala 2.8.0 RC3 distribution:

New Reactors provide more lightweight, purely event-based actors with optional, implicit sender identification. Support for actors with daemon-style semantics was added. Actors can be configured to use the efficient JSR166y fork/join pool, resulting in significant performance improvements on 1.6 JVMs. Schedulers are now pluggable and easier to customize.

There's also a design document of Haller: Scala Actors: Unifying Thread-based and Event-based Programming