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Haha, 6ms to add two integers that's about 1000x slower than on my trusty old PDP-11. You can trust software people to undo half a century of hardware engineers efforts).


That was an end-to-end measurement of the RPC service, so you need to measure how long it took the card-reader to read the instructions and print out the result on the line printer ;-)




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