One thing you must also understand is that numbers at .050 which is what those number are , and only a small part of the equation . To truly understand what’s going on , you need to look at numbers at .006 ,020 , .050 and .200 this establishes the rates of tappet acceleration . And the area under the curve . This is essentially the amount of time the valve is open to move an appreciable amount of air thru the port.
The key to camshaft design in a high performance diesel power plant is that you have to work with in given parameters that when breached give the results that were common 5 to 10 years ago where it was a given that a cam didn’t effect , and some times hurt the performance of street diesels.
These cams were either way to big on their .006 numbers , which is called seat timing , and opens the ports for pressure to move , but no apreacable amount of air flow is evident.
One aspect of this is keeping the intake open to long , thereby bleeding off the pressure that is compression as the piston in past Bottom dead center, and rises to the power stroke
All in all most thoughtful street cams are very to the point and move the valves open and shut quickly .
The big picture to all of this is each cam should be for a particular application , and not just a cookie cutter design for all .