diff --git a/ractor/Cargo.toml b/ractor/Cargo.toml
index fef352ee..25705ab0 100644
--- a/ractor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ractor/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,3 +51,8 @@ tracing-test = "0.2"
 name = "actor"
 harness = false
 required-features = []
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "async_traits"
+harness = false
+required-features = []
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diff --git a/ractor/benches/async_traits.rs b/ractor/benches/async_traits.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6ccf7546
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ractor/benches/async_traits.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+// Copyright (c) Sean Lawlor
+//
+// This source code is licensed under both the MIT license found in the
+// LICENSE-MIT file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+//! Benchmarks for specifically keeping large data on the stack. If the future
+//! doesn't get boxed, this measures the relative performance impact
+//!
+//! Comparison of
+//! `cargo bench --bench async_traits -p ractor --no-default-features -F tokio_runtime`
+//! against
+//! `cargo bench --bench async_traits -p ractor --no-default-features -F tokio_runtime,async-trait`
+
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate criterion;
+
+use criterion::{BatchSize, Criterion};
+#[cfg(feature = "cluster")]
+use ractor::Message;
+use ractor::{Actor, ActorProcessingErr, ActorRef};
+
+#[allow(clippy::async_yields_async)]
+fn big_stack_futures(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    const NUM_MSGS: usize = 50;
+    const NUM_BYTES: usize = 50_000;
+
+    struct LargeFutureActor {
+        num_msgs: usize,
+    }
+
+    struct LargeFutureActorState {
+        cmsg: usize,
+        data: [u64; NUM_BYTES],
+    }
+
+    struct LargeFutureActorMessage;
+    #[cfg(feature = "cluster")]
+    impl Message for LargeFutureActorMessage {}
+
+    #[cfg_attr(feature = "async-trait", ractor::async_trait)]
+    impl Actor for LargeFutureActor {
+        type Msg = LargeFutureActorMessage;
+
+        type State = LargeFutureActorState;
+
+        type Arguments = ();
+
+        async fn pre_start(
+            &self,
+            myself: ActorRef<Self::Msg>,
+            _: (),
+        ) -> Result<Self::State, ActorProcessingErr> {
+            let _ = myself.cast(LargeFutureActorMessage);
+            Ok(LargeFutureActorState {
+                cmsg: 0usize,
+                data: [0; NUM_BYTES],
+            })
+        }
+
+        async fn handle(
+            &self,
+            myself: ActorRef<Self::Msg>,
+            _message: Self::Msg,
+            state: &mut Self::State,
+        ) -> Result<(), ActorProcessingErr> {
+            state.cmsg += 1;
+            state.data[state.cmsg] = state.cmsg as u64;
+            if state.cmsg >= self.num_msgs {
+                myself.stop(None);
+            } else {
+                let _ = myself.cast(LargeFutureActorMessage);
+            }
+            Ok(())
+        }
+    }
+
+    let id =
+        format!("Waiting on {NUM_MSGS} messages with large data in the Future to be processed");
+    #[cfg(not(feature = "async-std"))]
+    let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread().build().unwrap();
+    #[cfg(feature = "async-std")]
+    let _ = async_std::task::block_on(async {});
+    c.bench_function(&id, move |b| {
+        b.iter_batched(
+            || {
+                #[cfg(not(feature = "async-std"))]
+                {
+                    runtime.block_on(async move {
+                        let (_, handle) =
+                            Actor::spawn(None, LargeFutureActor { num_msgs: NUM_MSGS }, ())
+                                .await
+                                .expect("Failed to create test actor");
+                        handle
+                    })
+                }
+                #[cfg(feature = "async-std")]
+                {
+                    async_std::task::block_on(async move {
+                        let (_, handle) =
+                            Actor::spawn(None, LargeFutureActor { num_msgs: NUM_MSGS }, ())
+                                .await
+                                .expect("Failed to create test actor");
+                        handle
+                    })
+                }
+            },
+            |handle| {
+                #[cfg(not(feature = "async-std"))]
+                {
+                    runtime.block_on(async move {
+                        let _ = handle.await;
+                    })
+                }
+                #[cfg(feature = "async-std")]
+                {
+                    async_std::task::block_on(async move {
+                        let _ = handle.await;
+                    })
+                }
+            },
+            BatchSize::PerIteration,
+        );
+    });
+}
+
+criterion_group! {
+    name=async_traits;
+    config = Criterion::default()
+        .sample_size(100);
+    targets=big_stack_futures
+}
+criterion_main!(async_traits);