Looks misleading to me. Scala code spawns real threads while Go code uses go routines.<p>If we want to compare apple to apples, we should use thread pool shared across Scala actors:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;1597942&#x2F;341181" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;1597942&#x2F;341181</a><p>Just add 7 lines of code and Scala should get at least 10x faster.