I'm sure an equally minimal http implementation using the net module would match or beat that, but since you'd never use either of them in production, the results are meaningless.
2. In which case you would be opened up not only to performance benchmarks but usability, simplicity, and features - whether you are talking about the language or the implementation.
That being said, I have nothing against your opinions or work though and understand that your implementation is also from 2008 :)
Yeah, but in which software's favor?
TCL has been battle-tested for decades, even in industrial automation...
Now, this particular server might be just some guy's quick project, but Node also started as a ho-hum experiment...
Right but I believe the point was that this http implementation was less battle-tested than node's and that if you're willing to strip away features from the node version, it too could outperform node's version in a microbenchmark.