Benchmarking vol. 2: Pitting Actix against Rocket v0.4 and v0.5-dev
September 29, 2020 · 12 min read
I present a Rust-specific sequel to my previous benchmark of 2 Kotlin and a Rust microservice
— it’s hard to resist one’s own curiosity and popular demand, especially when you’ve been
nerd-sniped.
Let’s stress-test the two prominent web frameworks: Actix Web and Rocket.
In addition to stable “threads & blocking calls” Rocket v0.4,
I have included a development snapshot of in-the-works Rocket v0.5,
which is async and no longer requires nightly Rust.Read more