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Beyond the Actor Model
While SALSA supports the actor model, it goes further in prvoding
liguistic abstractions for common coordination patterns in concurrent
and distributed applications. For concurrency, it provides token passing
continuations, join continuations, first-class continuations, named
tokens, and message properties. For distribution, it provides universal
naming abstractions, location-transparent remote communication, and
migration support. Furthermore, SALSA provides automatic local and
distributed garbage collection.
Wei-Jen Wang
2005-10-24