Indeed, the Akka team published an blog post [1] a while back that demonstrates superior performance versus a traditional thread pool. The actor model seems to

Indeed, the Akka team published an blog post [1] a while back that demonstrates superior performance versus a traditional thread pool. The actor model seems to be a very favorable use case for F/J though. [1] http://letitcrash.com/post/17607272336/scalability-of-fork-join-pool http://letitcrash.com/post/17607272336/scalability-of-fork-j...