Don't miss this follow-up post, though: http://blog.kgriffs.com/2012/12/18/uwsgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-node...
Graph 3 as a log y chart would've been nice.
Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks
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Re: Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks
#12I don't understand why there are no numbers on these graphs. Graphs are pretty pointless if you don't label the axes.
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#13For Node.js it's a big difference between 1k and 64k files, what about something in between, like 32k files?
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#14Edit: pointed out in other comment
Re: Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks
#15I'm actually quite perplexed as to why the blog author chose to use the WSGIRef which is known to be one of the slowest of the bunch according to this much more thorough benchmark:
http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers
Even more perplexed, why wasn't the payload and the WSGI apps sources published?
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#16Node/V8 is a beast and will dominate web development in few years. EDIT: Downvote me, I don't care.
That'd be true if performance would trump productivity in web development. On the other hand, I don't see a lot of web-apps written in C...
Give Node s try before judging, Node gives you same productivity as other popular languages used for web development but with C-class performance
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#17Node/V8 is a beast and will dominate web development in few years. EDIT: Downvote me, I don't care.
If the web development industry moves from PHP to JavaScript as the main backend language... well, from quality perspective nothing will change. IMO.
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#18Node/V8 is a beast and will dominate web development in few years. EDIT: Downvote me, I don't care.
I actually don't think so, not that I have downvoted you.
V8 was such a breakthrough at the time, it blew off the competition. Since then, many competitors have picked up the tricks and as shown in the bennchmark, uWSGI holds its own against Node/V8. As a result, the Node/V8 combination is not going to be so dominant in a few years in terms of performance. Another factors will come into play such as the language and the libraries available (the ecosystem). I would find it much harder to predict the dominance of the Noode/V8 ecosystem compared to that of Python or Java in a few years' time.
Re: Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks
#19I don't understand why there are no numbers on these graphs. Graphs are pretty pointless if you don't label the axes.
Isn't labeling axes the first rule of graphing? This is bad.
Re: Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks
#20Node/V8 is a beast and will dominate web development in few years. EDIT: Downvote me, I don't care.
V8 and PyPy are similarly fast runtimes, but this benchmark tests libraries against each other. Not particularly relevant, especially as at least two of them are known to have slow IO.