Every ”X new thing I made on a weekend is faster than Y old thing” is inevitably a half-implemented version of the old thing. Of course doing less instructions

Every ”X new thing I made on a weekend is faster than Y old thing” is inevitably a half-implemented version of the old thing. Of course doing less instructions is going to be faster. You could also make a benchmark-winning web server that just write()s to a socket, skipping all sanitization and error handling.