Keep in mind that these microbenchmarks are run with N=10000, which mostly renders the 600ms total latency difference insignificant. Its also highly likely that

Keep in mind that these microbenchmarks are run with N=10000, which mostly renders the 600ms total latency difference insignificant. Its also highly likely that the gap will become minimal over time. If that's still a non-negligible difference, I don't see why one wouldn't just write a server in something like go instead. Node isn't the best choice for a performance-sensitive application.