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+# Akka Microbenchmarks
+
+This subproject contains some microbenchmarks excercising key parts of Akka.
+
+You can run them like:
+
+   project akka-bench-jmh
+   jmh:run -i 3 -wi 3 -f 1 .*ActorCreationBenchmark
+
+Use 'jmh:run -h' to get an overview of the availabe options.