your non-webserver overhead is your non-webserver overhead. it'll be the same no matter what webserver you use, so it doesn't matter what the network is like.
the whole point of micro-benchmarks is to show one single use case and which option comes out the fastest. now if you ever need to serve small static files really god damn fast you know which web server to use.
they're all very fast. what do i do with the information presented by the article? what have i learned that will help me make better decisions about what to use for a given project? nothing, really.
according to the title and article i should be using G-WAN for my static files, which i've never heard of before. i know nothing about it other than it apparently serves more files per second than nginx, lighttpd, and apache. but, i should be using it.
the whole point of micro-benchmarks is to show one single use case and which option comes out the fastest. now if you ever need to serve small static files really god damn fast you know which web server to use.