tellus comparison benchmarks

Messaging throughput of tellus against kameo and ractor, higher is better.

Tag
manual-32706028064
Commit
927bd820d3206929926e56b278beb138b961046a
Date
2026-08-24T08:29:19Z
Versions
kameo 0.22.2, ractor 0.16.5, tellus 0.1.0
CPU
AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core Processor (4 cores)
OS
Linux 6.17.0-1022-azure
Toolchain
rustc 1.98.0 (88d9e12ae 2026-08-18)

Read this before drawing conclusions

  1. tellus's receive is synchronous; kameo's and ractor's handlers are async fn. tellus therefore avoids allocating and polling a future per message, but cannot await inside receive. This is a capability difference, not only a speed difference, and it favours tellus on exactly these microbenchmarks.
  2. tellus's mailbox is statically typed; the others erase message types, costing an allocation and a dynamic dispatch per message that tellus does not pay.
  3. Competitors are configured for speed, not defaults. kameo runs without tracing and ractor without message_span_propogation, both of which add per-message instrumentation that tellus has no equivalent of. This biases the setup in the competitors' favour.
  4. Messaging microbenchmarks only. Nothing here speaks to supervision, distribution, ergonomics, memory use or production readiness. kameo and ractor are mature, feature-rich frameworks; tellus is under active development and does far less.
  5. On CI these run on a shared 2-core runner, so absolute figures are not representative of real deployments. Only the relative comparison within a single run is meaningful.
  6. Written and run by tellus's maintainer. The full methodology and benchmark source are in the repository; corrections are welcome.

fan_out (8)

FrameworkTimeThroughputvs fastest
kameo10.950 ms9.13 M/s0.35x
ractor7.865 ms12.71 M/s0.49x
tellus3.841 ms26.03 M/s1.00x

fan_out (32)

FrameworkTimeThroughputvs fastest
kameo9.739 ms10.27 M/s0.35x
ractor7.816 ms12.79 M/s0.43x
tellus3.383 ms29.56 M/s1.00x

flood

FrameworkTimeThroughputvs fastest
kameo26.642 ms3.75 M/s0.38x
ractor19.652 ms5.09 M/s0.52x
tellus10.256 ms9.75 M/s1.00x

ping_pong (1)

FrameworkTimeThroughputvs fastest
kameo1.115 ms1.79 M/s0.59x
ractor1.085 ms1.84 M/s0.60x
tellus0.656 ms3.05 M/s1.00x

ping_pong (8)

FrameworkTimeThroughputvs fastest
kameo2.101 ms7.62 M/s0.69x
ractor2.118 ms7.55 M/s0.68x
tellus1.450 ms11.04 M/s1.00x