Libprocess 学习1

Primitives

1. actor-like Process and PID
2. Local message passing via dispatch, defer (deferred dispatch), and delay (delayed dispatch)
3. Functional composition via Futures/Promises
4. Remote message passing via install, send / moinitoring via link, exited notification

Libprocess:Features

• Asynchronous event loop via libev (libevent)
• Parallel (Schedules Processes onto worder threads)
• Collection of many asynchronous utilies
• Provides a metrics library for monitoring

Libprocess: Programming Model

1. Each Process has a “queue” of incoming “messages”
2. Each Process provides an execution context (only one thread
   executing within a Process at a time)
3. No per Process synchronization!
4. Blocking a Process is strictly forbidden!

Subprocess