Multi thread approach vs Akka actor model : <p>I'm new to akka actor. I have read the akka offical documents and still don't understand how actor works compare to threading model.</p>

<p>Let's take a simple example like this. I have a traditional HttpServer , which have 10 threads in the thread pools . When 20 requests are coming at the same time , the HttpServer will delegate all 10 threads in the thread pool to handle the first 10 requests and the others will be queued in the network interface to wait for the thread to pick up.</p>

<p>How will an actor-based HttpServer react to the same problem?. Will all of the requests are queued in front of a delegated actors to process them in a sequential order and send the messages to other actor?. If so, this is the point that I don't understand how can actor provide better performance than threading model, because only 1 actor process 20 requests in a sequential order can not faster than 10 thread process 20 requests concurrently.</p>

<p>What I am trying to understand is that how actor react when multiple requests are coming together at the same time? , not how actor process and queue the message in the mail box , it's already showed up a lot in the documents. Can someone simulate the steps how actor work in this example?</p>
