This document discusses Scala features for parallelism, concurrency, and reactive programming. Some key points include:
- Scala supports parallel collections that can perform operations like map, reduce, and filter in parallel.
- Futures represent asynchronous computations whose results are not yet known. They allow non-blocking operations.
- Actors are units of concurrency that communicate asynchronously by message passing. They encapsulate state and behavior.
- Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant event-driven applications using actors. It implements the actor model in Scala.