Reading higher in the thread, some Elixir folks are saying that the techempower benchmarks used the wrong settings (debug mode, etc) for their Elixir benchmark.
I was mostly responding directly to these 2 statements from my parent comment:
> They did savings by re-implementing their services and attribute those savings to the new tool / programming language.
> I wonder what the saving would look like if they chose another tool for the second / optimized system. I doubt it would differ much if they went with Go, Java or stayed with Python.
Which I didn't entirely agree with.