Processes messages of type A, one at a time. Messages are submitted to
the actor with the method !. Processing is typically performed asynchronously,
this is controlled by the provided strategy.
Memory consistency guarantee: when each message is processed by the handler, any memory that it
mutates is guaranteed to be visible by the handler when it processes the next message, even if
the strategy runs the invocations of handler on separate threads. This is achieved because
the Actor reads a volatile memory location before entering its event loop, and writes to the same
location before suspending.
Implementation based on non-intrusive MPSC node-based queue, described by Dmitriy Vyukov: http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/queues/non-intrusive-mpsc-node-based-queue
- Type Params
- A
The type of messages accepted by this actor.
- Value Params
- handler
The message handler
- onError
Exception handler, called if the message handler throws any
Throwable.- strategy
Execution strategy, for example, a strategy that is backed by an
ExecutorService
- Companion
- object