Some of the loads listed by Brian Pearce in his Feb. 2017 Handloader article on "45 Auto Rim +P" gave me a bit of pause. Once 200 grain bullets go past 1000 FPS--or 230 grainers exceed 900 FPS in the 625--it seems like time to apply the brakes and downshift a bit. Same story in the 1911-series or other 45 ACP pistols.
In the 45 ACP, diameter is your primary ally. I would venture to say that is true of the 40 S&W as well. There have been all sorts of formulae cooked up to compare cartridge performance, and they all "square" some value of the bullet--its diameter, its weight, or its velocity. Diameter is he only value that empirically squares itself in The Real World. That is why I view Hatcher's Index of Relative Stopping Power as a more reliable predictor of wound effectiveness--it squares a value that is squared in nature, and it uses mass instead of weight to assess a bullet's momentum. Is it perfect? Not at all. But it is pretty good, and had its genesis in actual live-critter testing--Thompson/LaGarde's "beeves". I trust "Hatcher" more than the other lab-coat-derived hocus-pocus from the jello blasters. All of it compares ammo to ammo, not performance upon live assailants. Any conclusion so derived is a leap of faith, variable in length.