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> I would imagine a for loop would put all of those to shame.

Indeed, see ".net sync" version. The point is to measure process spawn/message passing performance.

He has a valid point though. Goroutines are more like for-loops than processes. You can't kill them, can't manipulate them, can't store references to them, etc. Comparing that to actors is incorrect.

Bingo

There's updated Akka version which is a lot faster, btw.

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