If you are getting 500 reqs per second for a statically typed compiled systems programming language with no garbage collector on a modern machine, you have bigg

If you are getting 500 reqs per second for a statically typed compiled systems programming language with no garbage collector on a modern machine, you have bigger problems than standards compliance. 1Ghz/500 is ~2Mhz per request. Taking 2 million cycles to respond to a request in a benchmarked environment on localhost means something has gone horribly wrong.