# What is the reason behind Rust’s web framework, Rocket, not performing as well as expected in the Techempower benchmarks?

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**Created:** [18 June 2020 03:14 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-is-the-reason-behind-rust-s-web-framework-rocket-not-performing-as-well-as-expected-in-the-techempower-benchmarks/852 "2020-06-18T03:14:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [18 June 2020 07:26 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-is-the-reason-behind-rust-s-web-framework-rocket-not-performing-as-well-as-expected-in-the-techempower-benchmarks/852/2 "2020-06-18T07:26:00Z")

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Great question!

Part of the answer might be [this GitHub comment by Rocket’s primary maintainer](https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/710#issuecomment-405721936), especially the second item:

> There are three reasons: [why Rocket was not part of the Techempower benchmarks at the time]
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> 1. I personally believe that developers tend to misplace trust on benchmarks. As such, it might be a good thing that Rocket isn’t on there. Perhaps then the decision of which framework to choose can be based on what’s really important: ergonomics, productivity, security, and correctness.
> 2. Rocket doesn’t and won’t ever cater to benchmarks. That is, we won’t make design decisions or changes to Rocket just to be faster at a particular benchmark without further justification.
> 3. No one’s written/submitted to TechEmpower.

Of course, it would still be interesting to see what is happening here that makes Rocket less efficient for these particular microbenchmarks w.r.t. other frameworks, especially [the other frameworks also written in Rust](https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=ph&test=fortune&l=yyku7z-1r).

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