I would be interested in knowing the results of your findings. So, from my brief understanding of node.js, it's well suited for such stuff. There's special hand

I would be interested in knowing the results of your findings. So, from my brief understanding of node.js, it's well suited for such stuff. There's special handling in node for binary data. The answer probably depends on whether you want to blindly shuffle data (piping) or do something smart like interpret it, etc... A small experiment (profiled) which emulates your use-case would surely throw some light on the question.