alt Hacker NewsQuick benchmark of pmtiles directly in maplibre vs served tiles, both via Bunnycdn and 5 areas sampled using same style. Total impact on page end to end load time: 39ms longer with cached range requests from pmtiles than cached tiles. Individual requests are comparable in the 20-35ms range, so the slight extra time seems to be from the additional round trip for range headers (makes sense).
What I haven't understood is why not write a program that serves the pmtiles individually on the server? Might not be as performant (but easily hit 1k RPS) but wouldn't require mounting another filesystem which practically rules out a containerised environment.