Scalable Remote Actors

by Stephen Tu for École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Scala team

This proposal identifies Java serialization and blocking IO as the two main potential performance bottlenecks in the current implementation of remote actors in Scala, and suggests separate, but relevant summer projects to deal with each issue. Other relevant existing open source projects are discussed, and while some ideas are borrowed, the main idea is that these projects do not address both of these issues together, which makes this particular summer project proposal unique.