[maybenot]

The Play JSON controller is using Futures to do JSON serialization.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

Compare this to the Java Servlet, which just serializes directly in the Servlet callback.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

The former seems like overkill.

[redtuesday]

This is not the version which was used in the tests. The tests used a earlier version.