This also immediately popped out to me as the wrong assumption to make (and start off with, for that matter)... But I could see it being true if:
- You are essentially maxing out incoming and outgoing network IO
- You have no database to speak to (or your DB is in-memory)
In that case, I guess it is just a race to do some computation and fetch the right data from RAM, then the limiting factors would be RAM access and the number of the computations you could do to try and keep up with inbound requests?
- You are essentially maxing out incoming and outgoing network IO
- You have no database to speak to (or your DB is in-memory)
In that case, I guess it is just a race to do some computation and fetch the right data from RAM, then the limiting factors would be RAM access and the number of the computations you could do to try and keep up with inbound requests?