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Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown by a2800276 on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @03:12AM (#1786391)
What about that whole "fork" thing. I hear it's quite the rage
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Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown by KirinDave on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @02:48PM (#1788340)
Your OS's copy-on-write page policy loves when you fork things using mark-and-sweep garbage collection. It is full of rage.
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Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown by moonpolysoft on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @03:28AM (#1786423)
Last time I checked Node.js was not able to invoke fork.
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Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown by simonw on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @04:29AM (#1786530)
It can spawn child processes:

http://nodejs.org/api.html#child-processes-89 http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2010/07/14/multi-node-concurrent...

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