so5-dining-philosophers VS sobjectizer

I want to note that SObjectizer provides not only agents and dispatchers for them, there is also such a thing as message chains. They were introduced specially for the integration of non-SObjectizer-parts of an application with SObjectizer-part. But since then they grew to a full-fledged mechanism of building multithreading applications even without agents. You can take a look at our dining-philosophers demo (the description, the repository).

Message Delivery Tracing aims to debug an application built on top of SObjectizer. In essence, it logs the primary stages of the message delivery process, allowing visibility into whether there is a suitable subscriber with the corresponding event handler.

An additional rationale for structuring cooperations in hierarchies is to facilitate the sharing and propagation of dispatchers. A recent update of SObjectizer includes new functionalities that allow access to both agent and cooperation dispatchers. This enhancement was prompted by feedback provided by a user and myself.

If a stop signal arrives, it will be enqueued at the end as a demand for image_producer_callback. This means, it will be processed after the other 6 demands currently in the queue. Maybe this is not an issue but in some cases it might be. At this point, another feature of SObjectizer is to consider: agent priorities. Essentially, this feature allows for the demands to be handled in different orders based on the priorities of agents. In this context, if we assign image_producer_callback a higher priority than others, the “stop signal” would be processed before the rest of the requests.

The real solution consists in using another slick feature of SObjectizer: mutable messages.

However, this kind of filtering is inefficient and might result in a significant run-time cost. Indeed, every empty cv::Mat follows all the message handling workflow, only to be thrown out. Although we expect that empty images will be sporadic, a more idiomatic approach exists: delivery filters.

SObjectizer’s agent states are quite sophisticated and provide some utilities that might be useful for developing a working solution. First of all, image_viewer can be modeled as a two-state agent:

An alternative way is using SObjectizer’s timers.

Those who came looking for actor model examples should check out sobjectizer

In sobjectizer the ownership is held by "environment" , while in rotor each thread must held appropriate context, when actor environment is running.

May be actor frameworks like caf, sobjectizer or rotor is something, that you are looking for.