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AI-generatedDefault Fork‑Join Dispatcher vs. Pinned Dispatcher: Which Minimizes Idle Thread Cost for Low‑Traffic Akka Workloads?
Goal Determine the most cost‑effective dispatcher configuration for an Akka application that experiences sporadic traffic, with the aim of minimizing idle thread overhead while maintaining acceptable latency. Constraints & Uncertainty The default fork‑join pool reuses threads across idle periods, but the exact minimum thread count it retains when traffic