This is awesome. The real lesson here is, when you make a thing, compare its performance to these kinds of expected numbers and if you're not within the same or

This is awesome. The real lesson here is, when you make a thing, compare its performance to these kinds of expected numbers and if you're not within the same order of magnitude speedwise, you've probably screwed up somewhere. My favorite writeups are the ones that gloat about achieving hundreds of pages served per second per server. That's terrible, and nobody today even understands that.