[Segmentation]

> Working at a startup it's a huge success if I ever have to handle a lot of connections to my app, but today and everyday, I want fast response times on a page load.

Realistically, I doubt many humans can distinguish between 1ms and 100-200ms. response times.

[bhauer]

True, especially when accounting for Internet latency.

However, the purpose of this project is not actually to measure how quickly platforms and frameworks can execute fundamental/trivial operations. Rather, these tasks are a proxy for real-world applications. Across the board, we can reasonably assume that real applications will perform 10x, 50x, 100x, or even slower than these tests. The question is, where does that put your application? If your application runs 100x slower than your platform/framework, does that put your application's response time at 200ms or 2,000ms?

That's a difference users do notice.

[fantastical]

This article by Jakob Nielsen goes into that a bit: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-l... (1993). He claims <100ms feels instantaneous.