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The thing I like about it is that you get the async possible benefits without the logical overhead. Erlang allows many connections to queue up on a web server. Now Java can too.

I think if done right, this will bring down costs for scaling. I recently looked at Linode and AWS. My first thought was holy crap! To get a small 2 GB Ram box is rather expensive. It would be cheaper to just pay for a business internet connection and host my own boxes. If I had a spike in connection with normal threading on a small box (my laptop with 16 GB), Java would start to sputter around 200 threads due to context switching. Connections would be rejected. Quasar server would accept the connections, just have a high latency. I could live with that.