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Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java.

Google TechTalks · talk · Watch on YouTube

Distributed systemsSoftware performance & optimizationFunctional programming

What it is

A Google Tech Talk by the author of Kilim, a Java library for lightweight actor-style message passing. It argues that message passing can replace shared-memory concurrency and claims performance competitive with or better than Erlang for huge numbers of actors.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to as evidence that Java can do fast, cheap message-passing concurrency, as an alternative to Erlang or Scala actors.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2009, last 2012

What HN commenters said

  1. “Kilim's author did a nice Google Talk”

    Kilim author's Google talk on lightweight actors in Java.

    wynand, 2009-10 · Recommendation · in “Concurrency Patterns: Java, Scala, and Clojure”

  2. “Kilim seems quite promising and seems to hold its own quite well in benchmarks against Erlang.”

    Kilim as a promising JVM message passing alternative competitive with Erlang.

    lucifer, 2010-02 · Recommendation · in “Why Scala Actors are Slow”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: kilim, actors, java, erlang, jvm concurrency

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