comparison of performance version 1.1.1p vs 3.1.0

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I compared performance of openssl versions 1.1.1p and 3.1.0 using nginx 1.23.4 as server and siege 4.1.6 as a client.
I tried three ciphers and in each of these 1.1.1 has better performance.
Is it a well known issue or my tests are not correct?
Thank you!

                                                          1.1.1  hits     3.1.0 hits
AES256-SHA256                                     18728       8134
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384        16514    16015
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384   76020     64967

siege  -t1M -b  https://localhost:4411

p.s. All tools have been built with default config options; nginx webserver returns its default page.

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