Benchmarks

Numbers that hold up.

Reproducible measurements for DENSE — DE:LIGHT's KVM nanoservice execution mode. Hardware, workload, and methodology are published alongside every result.

DENSE · warm dispatch · p50
200 µs

Reference voting workload on the DE:EPER validation rig, May 2026. EU-sovereign infrastructure; HATP receipt included in the measurement.

What is measured

Warm dispatch latency — end-to-end

The wall-clock time from an agent dispatch request arriving at the DENSE scheduler to the first byte of the result being available to the caller. Measured at the 50th percentile across a sustained run of the reference voting workload. The measurement includes HATP receipt generation — the cryptographic proof of execution is not excluded.

Cold-start numbers and batch-regime throughput figures are being added as part of the ongoing validation series on the DE:EPER rig.

Workload comparison

echo_counter — Borz / Go / Node

The echo_counter workload is a minimal stateful counter with a single increment operation. It exercises dispatch, state access, and receipt generation without workload-specific hotpaths. Results across the three supported runtimes are published under the same methodology.

Runtime Warm p50 Warm p99 Notes
Borz Results pending publication
Go Same harness — results pending
Node Same harness — results pending

Results will be published once the validation series completes live-rig runs. Raw results.json and the reproducer script will be linked here alongside the numbers.

Methodology

How the numbers are produced

Hardware

DE:EPER rigs — EU-hosted bare metal. Full specification and BIOS configuration published in the reproducer repository.

Isolation

Each run is pinned to a dedicated actor; no resource sharing between workloads during a measurement window.

Receipt inclusion

HATP receipts are generated for every call. The receipt latency is included in the reported wall-clock time — we do not measure a receipts-off fast path.

Reproducibility

The workload, harness, and analysis scripts are committed to a public repository. Anyone can run the same workload on comparable hardware and produce the same numbers.

Why it matters

EU-sovereign execution with a proof.

DENSE runs entirely on EU infrastructure. Every call produces a HATP receipt — a compact, verifiable proof of execution that can be presented to an auditor, a regulator, or a downstream system. The benchmark numbers above include that cost. There is no receipts-off mode that makes us look faster.