Dapper vs. EF Core - Which is Faster?

More than four years ago, I published a post called Dapper vs Entity Framework vs ADO.NET Performance Benchmarking [/dapper-vs-entity-framework-vs-ado-net-performance-benchmarking/]. In that post, I determined that Dapper [https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper] performed markedly better for queries against a SQL Server database than Entity Framework did, and even outperformed ADO.NET in certain cases. "And it's Dapper by...