[kbenson]

Except that I, and I'm sure many other people, are interested in more than just performance. I want to know how much code it is to achieve some small subset of usefulness, and what it looks like. Is it overly complex? Is it split apart in a paradigm that doesn't match my mental model very well?

I agree most of us aren't building blogs (I'm not), but I believe a blog is a reasonable stand in for a more complex application. It obviously won't test everything, but the requirements are well understood (or can be well understood, if defined well enough).

Also, who's to say that some of these frameworks aren't going to perform significantly worse when they start having to do more than simply serialize data as JSON across a socket? With that in mind, how accurate are some of these benchmarks if they aren't set up and used how they would be in real life.