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by ahofmann 409 days ago
That is reasonably fast. We wrote entire games in PHP where we aimed for wall time under 100ms. That is a challenge, but often doable. Some routes managed to respond in under 50ms.
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Go on—I'll bite! What did you write?

I spent a colossal amount of my childhood and teens playing browser-based games and have zero regrets!

You probably haven't heard of them. We were a German studio, and most of our games only reached a few tens of thousands of players. The biggest hit was Xhodon — it had a bit of a following among World of Warcraft fans. It was a fun time.