how-to-win-in-web-framework-benchmarks-8bc31af76ce7">written in detail about how benchmarks are gamed</a>. Another thing to keep in mind is that some benchmarks aggressively use advanced optimization features and thus demonstrate <em>potential</em> performance, i.e. performance that is possible given some caveats, but realistically unlikely unless you actively spend the time to go over your entire codebase identifying optimization candidates and evaluating the regression risks brought by the optimization ca