=== unbounded stream; client takes 100, then goes quiet === protocol quiet 0.5s quiet 1s quiet 2s RSocket 100 100 100 gRPC 103,425 449,318 1,208,219 WebSocket 19,664 143,870 320,255 RSocket is flat: the server produced exactly what request(n) asked for. gRPC grows 11.7x between 0.5 s and 2 s; WebSocket grows 16.3x. Growth that tracks the wait, rather than settling at a buffer size, means nothing bounded the producer. (Growth is faster than linear because the loop is still being JIT-compiled during the first run.)