Pith Number

pith:4OTGELLC

pith:2025:4OTGELLC5ZP3TOLS63Y3CL52YZ

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On the Duality of Task and Actor Programming Models

Alex Aiken, Fredrik Kjolstad, Joseph Guman, Michael Bauer, Michael Garland, Rohan Yadav, Sean Treichler

arxiv:2508.16522 v1 · 2025-08-22 · cs.PL · cs.DC

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\pithnumber{4OTGELLC5ZP3TOLS63Y3CL52YZ}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:57:50.163266Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3a6622d62ee5fb9b972f6f1b12fbac645075f18a6fe2fefbeb512f4cbd543d6

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.16522 · arxiv_version: 2508.16522v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.16522 · pith_short_12: 4OTGELLC5ZP3 · pith_short_16: 4OTGELLC5ZP3TOLS · pith_short_8: 4OTGELLC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4OTGELLC5ZP3TOLS63Y3CL52YZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e3a6622d62ee5fb9b972f6f1b12fbac645075f18a6fe2fefbeb512f4cbd543d6

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53f1e38742af638d1090820f810e1aa8d3065791fc48f10a218c6a1fd3dc1b93",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-22T16:45:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce6f6da54fa33312f97221177e41f40256292d417ad7d8bace96d97e49a1e38d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.16522",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}