import scala.io._
import scala.actors._
import Actor._

object PageLoader {
  def getPageSize(url: String) = Source.fromURL(url, "latin1").mkString.length
}

val urls = List(
  "http://www.amazon.com",
  "http://www.twitter.com",
  "http://www.google.com",
  "http://www.cnn.com")

def timeMethod(method: () => Unit) = {
  val start = System.nanoTime
  method()
  val end = System.nanoTime
  println("Method took " + (end - start) / 1000000000.0 + " seconds.")
}

def getPagesSequentially() = {
  for (url <- urls) {
    println("Size for " + url + ": " + PageLoader.getPageSize(url))
  }
}

def getPagesConcurrently() = {
  val caller = self

  for (url <- urls) {
    actor { caller ! (url, PageLoader.getPageSize(url)) }
  }

  for (i <- 1 to urls.size) {
    receive {
      case (url, size) =>
        println("Size for " + url + ": " + size)
    }
  }
}

println("Sequential run:")
timeMethod { getPagesSequentially }

println("Concurrent run:")
timeMethod { getPagesConcurrently }

import scala.io._
import scala.actors._
import Actor._

object PageLoader {
  def getPageSize(url: String) = Source.fromURL(url).mkString.length
}

val urls = List(
  "http://www.amazon.com",
  "http://www.twitter.com",
  "http://www.google.com",
  "http://www.cnn.com")

def timeMethod(method: () => Unit) = {
  val start = System.nanoTime
  method()
  val end = System.nanoTime
  println("Method took " + (end - start) / 1000000000.0 + " seconds.")
}

def getPagesSequentially() = {
  for (url <- urls) {
    println("Size for " + url + ": " + PageLoader.getPageSize(url))
  }
}

def getPagesConcurrently() = {
  val caller = self

  for (url <- urls) {
    actor { caller ! (url, PageLoader.getPageSize(url)) }
  }

  for (i <- 1 to urls.size) {
    receive {
      case (url, size) =>
        println("Size for " + url + ": " + size)
    }
  }
}

println("Sequential run:")
timeMethod { getPagesSequentially }

println("Concurrent run:")
timeMethod { getPagesConcurrently }

--- 
+++ 
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import Actor._
 
 object PageLoader {
-  def getPageSize(url: String) = Source.fromURL(url).mkString.length
+  def getPageSize(url: String) = Source.fromURL(url, "latin1").mkString.length
 }
 
 val urls = List(
Set to latin1 encoding (8-bit, single-byte) to fix
