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Do Files want to be Actors?
Is 1970s distributed systems theory finally meeting 2020s kernel development?
Combined with an event loop, we have a new way of doing IO on linux without waiting on syscalls to complete before yielding back control to the program. Re-wind back to the 1970s, where Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker wrote the first paper about the actor model; Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes. Maybe making syscalls from 1970s Unix directly is like a remote procedure call to another machine - a leaky abstraction, a feeble attempt to impose your old mental model onto a new reality.
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