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> brings Python's speed to NodeJS level

Does anyone have a benchmark? I hear this claim a lot, but I haven't seen NodeJS being that much faster.

The Techempower benchmarks show them each having their strengths, with 3 'wins' apiece:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...

The usual Techempower caveats apply: I have no idea about the implementations or any possible constraints on these, YMMV.

Thank you, that seems useful. I must be reading it wrong, though, because I see wsgi completing three times more responses than node.js, which seems wrong. I also can't find the "three wins each" that you reference.

EDIT: Ah, I just noticed the different benchmark tabs at the top, thanks.

NodeJS/V8 is faster than CPython for obvious reasons - V8 is JIT compiled while CPython is not. PyPy closes the gap.

LuaJIT made the news for having an interpreter that beat V8’s JIT a while ago. There are a lot of traits about languages and their implementations that makes looking at their compiler features a poor way of determining speed.

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