Inter-Actor Communication

The ChorusOS operating system offers a set of services for communicating between actors. Two actors can be made to communicate by sharing memory. Other communication mechanisms can be split into two categories:

• Mechanisms that are local, that is, they do not allow actors running on different machines to communicate. The shared memory mechanism is one of these. You can use the system features in order to implement distributed shared memory. Message queues and local access points are other local communication mechanisms.

• Mechanisms that can be used transparently in a distributed way. The IPC service enables actors to exchange messages transparently whether they are running on the same machine or not.