[wonnage]

That’s covered on literally the line after the chart:

> The parsing (juggling of data) takes the majority of time: DateTime::parse

[boloust]

Yes, that's the part I'm confused about. This looks like a case where the vast majority of request time is spent in Ruby, so it would seem a faster language could give a significant speed up.

But right after seeming to acknowledge this, the author instead concludes that "even with a very poor performing ORM, the Database remains the primary time consumer".