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implementing the actor model

Each of my server processes in Go looks a little like an Erlang actor. There's a switch statement where a queue of input messages is processed, then each instance is run in turn. Instances also have a similar structure and maintain a "space" using an R-Tree. When it comes to efficiency, game loops are still a great way to do concurrency. Game loops per-instance allow you to sidestep many pitfalls of multi processor concurrency, much as per-process GC does with Erlang.