On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Roger Alsing <rogerals...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm trying to understand why the fork join pool scales better than the
> thread pool.
>

LMGTFY? :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=akka+scale+ForkJoinPool&oq=akka+scale+ForkJoinPool


> My understanding is that FJP can partition tasks into subtasks to optimize
> the work done on the underlying threads.
>
> How does this affect the mailboxes in Akka?
> Since a given mailbox can only process one message at a time to ensure max
> degree of paralellism = 1 for the actor model, I fail to see how the FJP
> model helps here?
>
> Is it just that registerForExecution is faster with fjp than treadpool?
>

Let's talk after you read the blog post!

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