ACT++: Building a Concurrent C++ with Actors
1989) ACT++: Building a Concurrent C++ with Actors. Technical Report TR-89-18, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (
ACT++ (Actors in C++) is a concurrent object-oriented language being designed for distributed real-time applications. The language is a hybrid of the actor kernel language and the object-oriented language C++. The concurrency abstraction of ACT++ is derived from the actor model as defined by Agha. This paper discusses our experience in building a concurrent extension of C++ with the concurrency abstraction of the actor model. The current design of ACT++ and its implementation are described. Some problems found in the Agha's actor model are discussed in the context of distributed real-time applications. The use of ACT++ disclosed the difficulty of combining the actor model of concurrency with class inheritance in an object-oriented language.
|Item Type:||Departmental Technical Report|
|Subjects:||Computer Science > Historical Collection(Till Dec 2001)|
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|Deposited On:||05 December 2001|