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> Even supposedly gold-standard benchmarks like the TechEmpower framework benchmarks quickly devolve into "application server handling HTTP requests by responding with predefined strings", which is as fast as it's utterly useless in most people's version of the real world.

It sets an upper bound on a server's performance given that page generation completes instantly. Sure it won't reflect real world performance, but in this case the benchmark should be read as "higher requests per second = lower resource footprint for the server".

Engineering is about being able to understand what a benchmark or measure truly means, and what useable information it contains.