[kassner]

Generic benchmarks are dumb. They stress just a few points of the system, you can't assert that the test case was well written, you are not sure that caching on the framework was enabled, or even configured, there's a lot of variables involved to assure that you are extracting the most in performance from a framework/language that you just don't know on those generic benchmarks.

If you want to compare performance, do it yourself, don't believe someone else's benchmarks. Write a test case that is suitable for your reality, then go for a conclusion.

[Joeri]

The techempower benchmarks are open source. If you think it is badly written, send a pull request. Running your own benchmarks simply isn't feasible at the scale they're running them. We all benefit from a comprehensive and well executed benchmark suite.