I evaluated a few different Rust web frameworks, where performance was the deciding factor. A minimum viable echo server was put through its paces with `h2load` on a relatively recent MacBook Pro. `actix-web` was literally 100x faster than the next fastest competing framework.

The benchmark result really confused me. But you'll find that the `actix` actors are extraordinarily lightweight and highly optimized around the equally lightweight and highly optimized Futures. The design is hard to beat, from a performance standpoint.