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WeTask v0.1.0-rc.1 Benchmarked Against Redis: Speed Gap and Context Explained

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A benchmark report dated July 25, 2026, compared WeTask v0.1.0-rc.1 against Redis 7.4.9 across unary, pipeline, and queue-ingress workloads on a MacBook Air with an Apple M3 chip running macOS. Redis consistently outperformed WeTask, running roughly 1.5x to 3.5x faster across SET and GET operations at various payload sizes and concurrency levels. The authors caution that the comparisons are not equivalence claims, noting that WeTask's SubmitTask performs additional work beyond a simple LPUSH operation. Pipeline tests showed WeTask reaching up to 402,175 ops/s versus Redis's 886,477 ops/s at 1,000 concurrent workers with 16-operation pipelines. WeTask's own internal Phase 9 baseline recorded in-process cache GET hits at 3.19 million ops/s and task completions at 157,900 ops/s, reflecting a different performance profile from its external network path.

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