Simple benchmark of plain text in Go, Ruby, PHP and Node.js

app.go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "net/http"
)

func rootHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    w.WriteHeader(200)
    fmt.Fprint(w, "Hello, world!")
}

func main() {
    http.HandleFunc("/", rootHandler)
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":9090", nil))
}

// Running 30s test @ http://localhost:9090
//   4 threads and 400 connections
//   Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
//     Latency     5.57ms    7.01ms 125.35ms   90.34%
//     Req/Sec    10.02k     2.24k   29.71k    74.53%
//   1193942 requests in 30.10s, 148.02MB read
//   Socket errors: connect 0, read 259, write 1, timeout 1
// Requests/sec:  39669.52
// Transfer/sec:      4.92MB

app.js

var http = require('http')

var counter = 0

var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200)
  if (req.url !== '/favicon.ico') ++counter
  res.end('counter: ' + counter)
})

server.listen(3333)

// Running 30s test @ http://localhost:3333
//   4 threads and 400 connections
//   Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
//     Latency    57.77ms    7.18ms 237.45ms   89.99%
//     Req/Sec     1.72k   199.45     2.52k    80.58%
//   205768 requests in 30.08s, 25.99MB read
//   Socket errors: connect 0, read 206, write 13, timeout 0
// Requests/sec:   6839.64
// Transfer/sec:      0.86MB

app.php

<?php

set_time_limit(0);

$address = '127.0.0.1';
$port = 8000;

$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
socket_bind($sock, $address, $port) or die('Could not bind to address');
$counter = 0;

while(1) {
  socket_listen($sock);
  $client = socket_accept($sock);

  $input = socket_read($client, 1024);

  $incoming = array();
  $incoming = explode("\r\n", $input);

  $fetchArray = array();
  $fetchArray = explode(" ", $incoming[0]);

  $output = "";
  $Header = "HTTP/1.1 200 OK \r\n" .
  "Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:59:59 GMT \r\n" .
  "Content-Type: text/html \r\n\r\n";
  $counter = $counter + 1;
  $content = "counter: ". $counter;
  $output = $Header . $content;

  socket_write($client,$output,strlen($output));
  socket_close($client);
}

// Running 30s test @ http://localhost:8000
//   4 threads and 400 connections
//   Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
//     Latency    16.85ms    4.47ms  42.82ms   75.70%
//     Req/Sec     1.02k   431.79     1.61k    75.61%
//   16710 requests in 30.03s, 1.55MB read
//   Socket errors: connect 0, read 753, write 0, timeout 0
// Requests/sec:    556.51
// Transfer/sec:     52.90KB

app.rb

require 'socket'
require 'uri'

server = TCPServer.new('localhost', 2345)

counter = 0

loop do
  socket = server.accept
  request = socket.gets || "GET / HTTP/1.1"
  request_uri  = request.split(" ")[1]
  path         = URI.unescape(URI(request_uri).path)
  counter += 1 unless path == "/favicon.ico"
  response = "counter: #{counter}\n"

  socket.print "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n" +
               "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n" +
               "Content-Length: #{response.bytesize}\r\n" +
               "Connection: close\r\n"
  socket.print "\r\n"
  socket.print response
  socket.close
end

# Running 30s test @ http://localhost:2345
#   4 threads and 400 connections
#   Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
#     Latency    22.25ms   29.22ms 315.84ms   94.62%
#     Req/Sec   499.46    453.80     1.37k    53.46%
#   16531 requests in 30.06s, 1.55MB read
#   Socket errors: connect 0, read 768, write 0, timeout 0
# Requests/sec:    550.02
# Transfer/sec:     52.82KB