I always liked these benchmarks, I've been following them since the earliest rounds.

One thing to note is how much things have improved over that time. Numbers that used to top the benchmarks would now be seen as "slow" compared to the top performers.

The other useful thing about these benchmarks is being able to easily justify the use of out of the box ASP.NET Core.

For many languages, the best performers are custom frameworks and presumably have trade-offs versus better known frameworks.

For C# the best performing framework (at least for "fortunes") is aspnet-core.

That side-steps a lot of conversations that might otherwise drag us into "Should we use framework X or Y" and waste time evaluating things.

Are the benchmarks gamed? Yes of course, the code might not even be recognisable as Asp.NET Core to me, but that doesn't really matter if I can use it as an authoritative source to fend off the "rewrite in go" crowd, and it doesn't matter that it is gamed, because the real-world load is many orders of magnitude less than these benchmarks demonstrate is possible.