# Xactor is a rust actors framework based on async-std
## Documentation
* [GitHub repository](https://github.com/sunli829/xactor)
* [Cargo package](https://crates.io/crates/xactor)
* Minimum supported Rust version: 1.39 or later
## Features
* Async/Sync actors.
* Actor communication in a local/thread context.
* Using Futures for asynchronous message handling.
* Typed messages (No `Any` type). Generic messages are allowed.
## Performance
**Actix vs. Xactor**
|Actix | 1548 ms| 14 ms|
|Xactor | 930 ms| 30 ms|
_Code:_ https://github.com/sunli829/xactor-benchmarks
## References
* [Actix](https://github.com/actix/actix)
* [Async-std](https://github.com/async-rs/async-std)