[EmbarrassedFuel]

The slowest is three times slower than the fastest! That’s not almost identical at all, and could easily be the difference between a useable interface and an unbearable one...

[jonahx]

It could be. And when I have evidence that user experience is affected, I'll care about the difference. But what if it's 1ms vs 3ms? Or 3ms vs 9ms? And the 9ms time is a much more expressive, productive, high-level language?

I'm not going to care about the difference just because "omg one number is 3x another number!?!"

[sharpneli]

For an soft realtime application like game that’s the difference between 10fps and 30fps. Or 30 and 90. Basically total failure or success.