Added more dispatcher descriptions

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Vibul Imtarnasan 2012-03-29 16:41:24 +12:00
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@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ There are 4 different types of message dispatchers:
* Dispatcher
- This is an event-based dispatcher that binds a set of Actors to a thread pool. It is the default dispatcher used if one is not specified.
- Sharability: Unlimited
- Mailboxes: Any, creates one per Actor
@ -55,6 +57,8 @@ There are 4 different types of message dispatchers:
* PinnedDispatcher
- This dispatcher dedicates a unique thread for each actor using it; i.e. each actor will have its own thread pool with only one thread in the pool.
- Sharability: None
- Mailboxes: Any, creates one per Actor
@ -66,6 +70,10 @@ There are 4 different types of message dispatchers:
* BalancingDispatcher
- This is an executor based event driven dispatcher that will try to redistribute work from busy actors to idle actors.
- It is assumed that all actors using the same instance of this dispatcher can process all messages that have been sent to one of the actors; i.e. the actors belong to a pool of actors, and to the client there is no guarantee about which actor instance actually processes a given message.
- Sharability: Actors of the same type only
- Mailboxes: Any, creates one for all Actors
@ -79,6 +87,10 @@ There are 4 different types of message dispatchers:
* CallingThreadDispatcher
- This dispatcher runs invocations on the current thread only. This dispatcher does not create any new threads,
but it can be used from different threads concurrently for the same actor. See :ref:`TestCallingThreadDispatcherRef`
for details and restrictions.
- Sharability: Unlimited
- Mailboxes: Any, creates one per Actor per Thread (on demand)