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In Scala we can easily do things in parallel with actors; actors are easily started up, they are cheap, and they can easily send objects to each other
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Here I'll look at how to use actors to parallelize in situations where we need to do some sort of calculation and aggregation over a collection of objects. E.g. given a collection of RSS or ATOM feeds pull down the list recents items from each