Xactor is a rust actors framework based on async-std

Documentation

• GitHub repository
• Cargo package
• Minimum supported Rust version: 1.39 or later

Features

• Async actors.
• Actor communication in a local context.
• Using Futures for asynchronous message handling.
• Typed messages (No Any type). Generic messages are allowed.

Examples

```rust use xactor::*;

[xactor::message(String)]

struct ToUppercase(String);

struct MyActor;

impl Actor for MyActor {}

[asynctrait::asynctrait]

impl Handler for MyActor { async fn handle(&mut self, ctx: &Context, msg: ToUppercase) { msg.0.touppercase() } }

[async_std::main]

async fn main() -> Result<()> { // Start actor and get its address let mut addr = MyActor.start().await;

// Send message `ToUppercase` to actor via addr
let res = addr.call(ToUppercase("lowercase")).await?;
assert_eq!(res, "LOWERCASE");
Ok(())

} ```

Performance

Actix vs. Xactor

| |Wait for response|Send only| |--------|-----------------|---------| |Actix | 1548 ms| 14 ms| |Xactor | 930 ms| 30 ms|

Github repository

References

• Actix
• Async-std