> If you are considering dropping node because you need more performance, be careful. That's what is surely not surprising to me, as I've measured the performa

> If you are considering dropping node because you need more performance, be careful. That's what is surely not surprising to me, as I've measured the performance of V8 even before node.js existed, and already knew of enough examples that resulted in the code executed with the speed comparable to C. I don't consider any modern JavaScript JIT implementation to be "slow", neither V8, nor the one in Safari or in Firefox. Moreover, all of them have more than one level of achieving the speed -- they adapt to the needs of the code executed, they are really the works of art, and not an accidental development.