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ASP.NET`s performance can be improved further, but that requires application specific tuning. That said, it's pretty damn good, for a full framework.

I'm impressed by the Java options. Definitely something to consider if absolute performance is the requirement.

I agree - I wonder if the Entity Framework results could be improved by using Compiled Queries.

Performance should improve massively with the use of async..

There were a variety of experiments with async and I don't think there has yet been any data to show that it improved performance of this benchmark.