[steveklabnik]

> I can see how it has great performance on the plaintext and json benchamrks

I actually forgot the DB tests were implemented; when I was sending in PRs, I was mostly thinking about plaintext and JSON, not database stuff. Sorry about that!

However.

https://actix.rs/docs/databases/

> Technically, sync actors are worker style actors. Multiple sync actors can be run in parallel and process messages from same queue. Sync actors work in mpsc mode.

So, you're still getting some degree of parallelism here. I wonder if that's it?

(You're right about the fact that the DB APIs are currently synchronous.)