Crate xactor

Xactor is a rust actors framework based on async-std

Documentation

• GitHub repository
• Cargo package
• Minimum supported Rust version: 1.39 or later

Features

• Async/Sync actors.
• Actor communication in a local/thread context.
• Using Futures for asynchronous message handling.
• Typed messages (No Any type). Generic messages are allowed.

Performance

Actix vs. Xactor

	Wait for response	Send only
Actix	1548 ms	14 ms
Xactor	930 ms	30 ms

Code: https://github.com/sunli829/xactor-benchmarks

References

• Actix
• Async-std

Structs

Addr	The address of an actor.
Caller	Caller of a specific message type
Context	An actor execution context.
Sender	Sender of a specific message type

Traits

Actor	Actors are objects which encapsulate state and behavior. Actors run within a specific execution context Context<A>. The context object is available only during execution. Each actor has a separate execution context.
Handler	Describes how to handle messages of a specific type. Implementing Handler is a general way to handle incoming messages and streams. The type T is a message which can be handled by the actor.
Message	Represents a message that can be handled by the actor.
Service	Trait define a system service.