Can you be more specific on how Swift doubles/triples your performance? Are you using a Swift backend framework for web serving?
wrk -t12 -c400 -d10s https://gitignoreio-stage-swift.herokuapp.com
Running 10s test @ https://gitignoreio-stage-swift.herokuapp.com
12 threads and 400 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 265.88ms 78.37ms 1.29s 84.87%
Req/Sec 119.55 39.81 254.00 67.32%
14230 requests in 10.09s, 79.67MB read
Requests/sec: 1410.00
Transfer/sec: 7.89MB
wrk -t12 -c400 -d10s https://gitignoreio-stage-node.herokuapp.com
Running 10s test @ https://gitignoreio-stage-node.herokuapp.com
12 threads and 400 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 945.65ms 136.05ms 1.29s 73.12%
Req/Sec 35.57 21.97 140.00 65.52%
3783 requests in 10.09s, 19.31MB read
Requests/sec: 374.81
Transfer/sec: 1.91MB
And yes, for my Swift backend, I'm using Vapor[1] and the source code is here: https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io.[1] - https://vapor.codes