tellus comparison benchmarks

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

Tag
tellus-v0.2.1
Commit
6d18b72d5315975f8ceb5d81b35e4c2322967c74
Date
2026-08-31T10:36:19Z
Versions
kameo 0.22.2, ractor 0.16.5, tellus 0.2.1
CPU
AMD EPYC 7763 64-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
kameo9.548 ms10.47 M/s0.43x
ractor7.269 ms13.76 M/s0.56x
tellus4.075 ms24.54 M/s1.00x

fan_out (32)

FrameworkTimeThroughputvs fastest
kameo8.826 ms11.33 M/s0.41x
ractor7.295 ms13.71 M/s0.50x
tellus3.628 ms27.56 M/s1.00x

flood

FrameworkTimeThroughputvs fastest
kameo25.113 ms3.98 M/s0.35x
ractor17.905 ms5.59 M/s0.49x
tellus8.785 ms11.38 M/s1.00x

ping_pong (1)

FrameworkTimeThroughputvs fastest
kameo1.014 ms1.97 M/s0.69x
ractor0.901 ms2.22 M/s0.77x
tellus0.696 ms2.87 M/s1.00x

ping_pong (8)

FrameworkTimeThroughputvs fastest
kameo2.053 ms7.79 M/s0.76x
ractor2.156 ms7.42 M/s0.73x
tellus1.565 ms10.22 M/s1.00x