performance comparisons on initial readme or something close?

[robertleeplummerjr]

Would be fantastic!

[Nick-Lucas]

I'd also like to see this at some point, although don't have a lot of time for it right now! If you have any basic profiles from your own testing please do share them!

Ultimately I wouldn't expect Limebean to be beating Model based ORMs in every situation. The core ability to Bean.Get<T> any type you want means that you can be triggering conversions on every .Get if you're not requesting the original type of the value, so you could shoot yourself in the foot there.
On the other hand the ORM itself it pretty lightweight, and I personally use it for data intensive applications without performance issues cropping up.