Page generation performance expectations?

So your original test of 1083253 milliseconds is about 18 minutes to generate 600,000 Lorem ipsum posts, is that right?

I am amazed at how fast hugo builds and renders the static sites!

One question on your data though.

All the benchmarks I have seen on Hugo is “Lorem Ipsum” dummy text stuff generated solely for testing purposes. How realistic are these posts, considering they are all text only, with 0 image embeds, or video embeds.

Also the template used to generate do not have a whole lot of go template logic.

So I want to know how/if the built performance will change on “real” data that

  1. Has realistic news / media content like images, gifs, video embeds etc and
  2. Uses a template that has if... else logic, loops etc

I did notice in my own builds with a 400-ish posts that I migrated from wordpress to markdown, that the build performance changes significantly from template to template.