[alpeb]

The Rob Van Behren slide is priceless: dude started building an async server and at the end realised he wrote the foundation for a threading package. I once asked myself the same question and did a little micro benchmark https://github.com/alpeb/io_benchmarks concluding IO was faster. Even so, I ended up doing all my stuff in Scala+Play because it's an immense pleasure and it's so easy to scale.

[lbarrow]

I worked with rvb closely last year and we always used to make fun of him whenever this debate came up. Then one day we realized he had co-authored a paper with Eric Brewer on the topic: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper...