Some of the excitement over Node.js is due to its throughput (the requests per second it can serve). Comparative benchmarks of similar applications, for example, Apache, show that Node.js has tremendous performance gains.
One benchmark going around is this simple HTTP server (borrowed from https://nodejs.org/en/), which simply returns a Hello World message directly from memory:
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8124, "127.0.0.1");
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');
This is one of the simpler web servers that you can build with Node.js. The http object encapsulates the ...
