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		wyager on Oct 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Turtl switched from Common Lisp to JavaScript ... I wouldn’t describe 4x nodejs as “super fast”. Nodejs is one of the slowest popular backends, or at least it was when I did a comparison a few years ago.

gibsonf1 on Oct 27, 2021 [–]

In the last benchmarks, woo beat all including the Go webserver: Scroll down just a bit to see the comparisons here: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo

wyager on Oct 28, 2021 | [–]

Nice. Node has gotten a lot faster than when I last looked apparently. In fact, I’m a bit suspicious of the benchmark they’re using.

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