They're not exactly performance improvements as .NET Core doesn't share any implementation ancestry with Mono (the runtime that was previously benchmarked). .N

They're not exactly performance improvements as .NET Core doesn't share any implementation ancestry with Mono (the runtime that was previously benchmarked). .NET Core's just a better engineered and optimized runtime for running Server Apps on Windows, Linux and OSX. Basically .NET Core is now the future for running .NET Server Apps on Linux.