I get your reasoning about ASCII/TCP and it makes sense... apples to apples. When asking for a performance benchmark, specifically about systems that are very

I get your reasoning about ASCII/TCP and it makes sense... apples to apples. When asking for a performance benchmark, specifically about systems that are very dependent on communication protocol for performance, I think that it's more valuable to know how the best performing protocol of either side would perform. As far as atomic vs CAS, I'd be more interested in the "right way" than the same way, so for my own interest, yes. Re: Ratio, from your graph it appeared they were co-mingled. If each was done on their own then my point is moot.