That was my understanding as well, but the improvement in CPU utilization they showed [0] seemed to be a bit too dramatic to be attributed solely to more infreq

That was my understanding as well, but the improvement in CPU utilization they showed [0] seemed to be a bit too dramatic to be attributed solely to more infrequent timer ticks. I guess they must done some serious cherry-picking on the sites used for that benchmark. [0] https://winblogs.azureedge.net/win/2016/06/cpu-utilization-1024x327.png https://winblogs.azureedge.net/win/2016/06/cpu-utilization-1...