Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks

Another set of benchmarks that shows Erlang's cowboy coming ahead on EC instances. It also compares EC2 vs real hardware and throws more contenders in the mix.

On physical hardware the race is pretty close (except node, python-gevent, but cluster node did very well).

http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/websocket-demo-results-v2.ht...

Re: Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks

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Post by zokier » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 10:14 AM UTC

tferris wrote: post #3

Node/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...

Re: Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks

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Post by raphman » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 10:16 AM UTC

guilloche wrote: post #2

I am surprised that node.js performs significantly better than python & pypy. Can anyone have some explanation?

It depends on the web framework. As the author of the benchmark shows in a later blog post [1], Python+uWSGI can be faster than Node.js

[1] http://blog.kgriffs.com/2012/12/18/uwsgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-node... (link originally posted by jdub in this discussion)