the perf gains are just as a possible without a unikernel, most high perf net apps at this point are onto userspace net stack to avoid interrupt+switch cost ala

the perf gains are just as a possible without a unikernel, most high perf net apps at this point are onto userspace net stack to avoid interrupt+switch cost ala intel dpdk, an opensource example would be https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/blob/master/README.md but tons of others in commercial spaces. ie. as per what bryan said there's plenty of counter examples on perf