Agreed. In a benchmark like this the goal isn’t a real world test. It’s a “what can you squeeze out of it”. We had another good thread talking about benchmarks that were closer to real world though.
This, for example, gives some great numbers: https://github.com/tbrand/which_is_the_fastest
Based on discussions from here: Which is the fastest web framework? (Link/Repo and results in this Topic)
EDIT: Reading through the rules of these benchmarks, it looks like there might be something that Erlang/Elixir could take advantage of for a performance gain, especially on the multiple queries test. The queries are executed individually with a random id and it strikes me as feasible that if queries could be executed in a process named by query and id that we could naturally leverage the BEAM to de-duplicate in progress requests. I wonder what it would take to do that and/or if it would help.
