[colechristensen]

It’s a stress test. It doesn’t have to be reasonable. This is what you do for performance improvement, you push as hard as you can to find the worst actors and fix them.

Performance improvements like this expand the horizons of what is reasonable to do.

There’s a circular logic problem where you argue that performance problems shouldn’t be fixed because nobody actually does this, but nobody does it because of performance problems. No, this effort didn’t solve every performance problem required to do a thing, but did it solve some of it.

“We didn’t do everything so we should have done nothing” is not how you build a performant product.