实际如何在本地Akka参与者之间传递消息

Question

I am new to Akka and went through the Akka Documentation. I understood that Actors interact with each other through messages and these messages should be immutable objects. i also got to know that if actors are interacting remotely then messages are passed though the network.

My question is how is a message passed between local actors. If i have a Actor system deployed in just one machine. How does these actors which share the same JVM interact with each other? Is it in-memory interaction?

Thanks for the reply.

Answer 1

Yes, it's through memory. Specifically, there's a Queue for each actor, and when you send that actor a message, your message is appended to the queue.

The documentation on mailboxes should help clear this up.