For the fortunes case, you are still comparing a web framework with a platform. When comparing web frameworks, some ASP.NET frameworks performs worse, others pe

For the fortunes case, you are still comparing a web framework with a platform. When comparing web frameworks, some ASP.NET frameworks performs worse, others perform better, but at most 2.4x faster. On the plain text one, the difference between frameworks is at most 6x. You would have to yank Phoenix and sit directly on top of a socket, as per my previous comment, if you want to compare both VMs.