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		abetlen on June 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web f... Not OP but to answer #2, based on the benchmark code here [1] the difference is that actix-pg accesses the database through message passing in the actor system [2] while actix-core accesses it directly [3]. [1]. https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast... [2]. https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... [3]. https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

continuations on June 5, 2019 [–]

I clicked on the "latency" tab of the benchmarks result [1] and there's a big difference in maximum latency between the 2 approaches:

actix-pg: 27.1 ms

actix-core: 201.1 ms

Is that to be expected?

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=9...

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