i know nobody cares, but DEED is about 16 times faster or smaller than NAK on average.
DEED beats NAK on all 53 benchmark comparisons.
DEED covers every NAK command except fs.
DEED also adds offline reads, whole threads, mnemonic keys, a relay that saves to disk, and proxy support.

in summary DEED is:
- 64x faster on Startup.
- 35x smaller on Memory at startup.
- 8x smaller on Binary size.
- 62x faster on Verifying 10,000 events.
- 44x faster on Signing 10,000 drafts.
- 14x faster on Querying the latest 500 notes.
- 7x faster on Paging through 49,500 notes.
- 6x faster on Publishing 100 events to each of 4 relays.
- 4.9x faster on Gift wrapping 1,000 messages.
- 6.6x faster on Unwrapping 1,000 gift wraps.
- 5.4x faster on NIP-77 sync of 50,000 events with 1% missing.
- 2.5x faster on Local relay accepting 10,000 events.
- 4.6x faster on Local relay serving 32 clients at once.
- 5.2x faster on Local relay answering 200 queries on one connection.
- 4.1x faster on Local relay serving 32 clients from 100,000 events.



https://zignostr.com/performance#deed-and-nak