diff --git a/docs/intro/what_is_envoy.rst b/docs/intro/what_is_envoy.rst index f1b1c34201627..1e7a92305f977 100644 --- a/docs/intro/what_is_envoy.rst +++ b/docs/intro/what_is_envoy.rst @@ -111,9 +111,8 @@ the :ref:`administration ` port. Envoy also supports Design goals ^^^^^^^^^^^^ -A short note on the design goals of the code itself: Although Envoy is by no means slow, -little effort has been put into micro performance optimizations of the native code. Fans of deep -performance tuning will find ample opportunity for improvement. The code has been written to be -modular and easy to test versus aiming for the greatest possible absolute performance. It's our -view that this is a more efficient use of time given that typical deployments will be alongside -languages and runtimes many times slower and with many times greater memory usage. +A short note on the design goals of the code itself: Although Envoy is by no means slow (we have +spent considerable time optimizing certain fast paths), the code has been written to be modular and +easy to test versus aiming for the greatest possible absolute performance. It's our view that this +is a more efficient use of time given that typical deployments will be alongside languages and +runtimes many times slower and with many times greater memory usage.