Comment by oomkiller

My first observation was the standard deviation on some of these measurements, Zed Shaw would have a heart attack on some of these measurements, and I don't believe they should be trusted. The best way to measure performance is to run your app on it, as synthetic benchmarks mean next to nothing compared to your actual application benchmarks. Finally, if you are this worried about performance, you should probably be looking at running real hardware anyways, like GitHub now is.