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Though that doesn’t change the crux of my question (rather it reinforces it): why invoke that benchmark in this context at all?



The fastest Elixir framework on the list, phoenix, is about as fast as uvicorn. (Both around 10 times slower than dragon.)

I was mostly responding directly to these 2 statements from my parent comment:

> They did savings by re-implementing their services and attribute those savings to the new tool / programming language.

> I wonder what the saving would look like if they chose another tool for the second / optimized system. I doubt it would differ much if they went with Go, Java or stayed with Python.

Which I didn't entirely agree with.




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