A good example of why web servers should be measured in seconds per request rather than requests per second. As you trim little tiny bits off the seconds per re

A good example of why web servers should be measured in seconds per request rather than requests per second. As you trim little tiny bits off the seconds per request, the requests per second go skyrocketing off to infinity, but unless you're doing zero work per request, that's a dubiously useful metric. 1,000,000 requests per second on what I think is an 8-core system (?) is 1/1,000,000 * 8 = 8us per request. 1,250,000 requests per second would be 6.4 us per request. Is this really your make or break issue? There's a set of people who can say "yes" to that. There's a set of people who think it is yes. The latter is much larger than the former. (Although arguably the ones worst off are the ones for whom it is their make-or-break issue, but they don't realize it....)