I am interested to know how Akka compares with Multithreaded Java applications performance-wise.
So, I have developed a simple event processing application using both the approaches, Akka and Multithreaded Java application. Presently, it just prints the events. It would be enhanced later to write events into a database, suppress events, filter events, throttle events, etc.
I found that the Akka version consumes more time than the multithreaded Java application.
Please clarify why Akka version takes more time than the multithreaded Java application.
Is it anything to do with whether the application is CPU intensive or IO intensive?