There is certainly a lot of speculation in Techempower benchmarks and top entries can utilize questionable techniques like simply writing a byte array literal t

There is certainly a lot of speculation in Techempower benchmarks and top entries can utilize questionable techniques like simply writing a byte array literal to output stream instead of constructing a response, or (in the past) DB query coalescing to work around inherent limitations of the DB in case of Fortunes or DB quries. And yet, the fastest Ruby entry is at 274th place while Rails is at 427th. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&section=data-r22 https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s...