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Rubinius-Actor
==============

An implementation of the Actor concurrency model, from the Rubinius project.

Depends on Rubinius's core API class "Channel", built into Rubinius and
available for JRuby via the rubinius-core-api gem.

Installation
============

gem install "rubinius-actor"


Usage
=====

require 'rubinius/actor'
include Rubinius::Actor
this_io = STDOUT
actor = Actor.spawn{loop{
  Actor.receive{|m|
    m.when(IO){|io|
      sleep 3
      io << "\n***\nHi there! It's #{Time.now}!\n***\n"}
    }
  }
}
actor << this_io

Contribution
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TODO
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Credits
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Copyright 2007-2008  MenTaLguY <[email protected]>
          2007-2011  Evan Phoenix <[email protected]>