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We embark on a side quest to explore some of the community misinformation around actors and performance. A common complaint is that actors are slower than locks, and thus another reason to avoid them. Let's explore why these comparisons aren't quite what they seem, and how actors can in fact be _more_ performant than mutexes and locks.