gistfile1.txt

node.js (version 0.8.18):
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var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');

console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');


Go (version go1.0.2):
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package main

import (
 "net/http"
 "log"
 "fmt"
)

func main() {
 http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
  w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain")
  fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello, World\r\n")
 })

 log.Printf("Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/")
 http.ListenAndServe("127.0.0.1:1337", nil)
}



benchmark: ab -n 100000 -c 100 localhost:1337/


results:
========

Node.js:
--------

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        12 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   15.446 seconds
Complete requests:      100000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      11300000 bytes
HTML transferred:       1200000 bytes
Requests per second:    6474.21 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       15.446 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.154 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          714.44 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.1      0       5
Processing:     1   15   7.8     15      47
Waiting:        1   15   7.8     15      47
Total:          1   15   7.8     15      47

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     15
  66%     19
  75%     22
  80%     23
  90%     25
  95%     28
  98%     32
  99%     34
 100%     47 (longest request)



Go:
---

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        14 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   22.960 seconds
Complete requests:      100000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      9600000 bytes
HTML transferred:       1400000 bytes
Requests per second:    4355.31 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       22.960 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.230 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          408.31 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.1      0       4
Processing:     1   23   6.6     26      40
Waiting:        1   23   6.6     26      40
Total:          3   23   6.6     26      40

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     26
  66%     27
  75%     27
  80%     28
  90%     29
  95%     29
  98%     30
  99%     32
 100%     40 (longest request)