Module tiny_actor::actor

Module containing all the different parts of the actor and their spawn functions. The most important of these are: Child, ChildPool, Address and Inbox with spawn, spawn_one and spawn_many. Ready documentation on their respective parts for more information.

Structs

Address

An address is a reference to the actor, used to send messages.

Child

A child is the non clone-able reference to an actor with a single process.

ChildPool

A child-pool is the non clone-able reference to an actor with a multiple processes.

Inbox

An Inbox is a non clone-able receiver part of a channel.

Functions

spawn

Spawn a new actor with a single process, this returns a Child and an Address.

spawn_many

Spawn a new actor with a multiple process, this returns a ChildPool and an Address.

spawn_one

Spawn a new actor with a single process, this returns a Child and an Address.