Benchmark: Akka vs Erlang

Franz Bettag have written up a small post about a benchmark between Akka and Erlang.

Interesting results. On his hardware and specific benchmark Erlang R14B04 did 1 million messages per second while Akka 2.0-SNAPSHOT did 2.1 million per second.

Read more here: http://uberblo.gs/2011/12/scala-akka-and-erlang-actor-benchmarks

…and we still have a lot more performance to squeeze out of Akka.

Fun running Akka tests in parallel on my 24 core Linux box. 
sbt parallel testing FTW. 

Fun running Akka tests in parallel on my 24 core Linux box. 

sbt parallel testing FTW. 

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