Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results

Re:Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results by pron on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @04:19PM (#3950280)

I'm interested to know how vert.x compares to industrial-strength "traditional" servlet containers. My guess is that vert.x would outperform them under certain conditions, but all in all they would scale better.

I believe servlets are still the most scalable web stack out there.

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Re:Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results by simonw on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @05:47PM (#3950653)

I imagine you mean that servlets are the most performant web stack, not the most scalable web stack. Scalability != Performance.

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Re:Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results by pron on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @06:13PM (#3950735)

Well, I'm sure it's easy to beat servlets with a load that requires only one thread with a simple enough computation model. Servlets (and any truly multithreaded solution) trades single-thread performance with the ability to scale with the number of cores. That's what I meant.

So I would think that given a heavy load on a many-core machine with interesting enough computations, nothing could beat servlets' performance.

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Re:Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results by simonw on Thursday May 10, 2012 @02:45AM (#3952178)

My apologies - it's clear you were talking about scaling performance with additional cores, which is entirely the right usage of the term.

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