@wolfiton, I guess that @mikl’s point is that this type of benchmark is kind of useless because they do not reflect real life use cases, but there are benchmarks that help indeed.
IMO, the only reason I think we should pay attention to those benchmarks and how Elixir goes on it, is that a LOT of people do care about them, so going bad on them is bad for Elixir’s image.
I agree they do not represent the reality, but the bad news is that these people really think they do, and some of them are really loud.