// I just could not make him understand that 5 milliseconds of additional latency in the era where microseconds are an eternity is a disaster for a veritable smorgasbord of upcoming projects. It just. Would. Not. Sink. In.

Does this company do something where this latency would be noticeable? Can you give an example of business impact that would result from it?

If you can, why don't you? If you can't, then sounds like it doesn't matter.

The CTO didn't get to be the CTO by optimizing the irrelevant.