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by otabdeveloper4 1957 days ago
> Then why is it that IO-heavy benchmarks such as the Techempower web benchmark are dominated by async frameworks?

Probably because they forgot to enable realtime priority for threads in the synchronous frameworks.

Failing to do that means Linux will starve your web request handling threads in favor of various system tasks you don't care about.