Running what, a bare metal rack app returning an empty response and doing no real work? All requests are not made equal, which is why these RPS judgements are pretty silly unless we define the exact request.

There's the TechEmpower benchmarks for that though. And you can't deny Ruby is among the worst there.

Alright, I see that we are going from billions to millions. Soon we are going to hit a VM that got just few thousand in funding and still outperforms MRI. Please stop using lack of funding as justification for something that is subpar compared to another thing in the same category. Again, we are talking about VMs, so the comparison is apple to apple. One apple is more shiny than the another, I agree, the reason might be funding, I agree again.