I believe it's a combination of application and stack that's the problem. I've been comparing Rails 3 apps to similar apps in other frameworks. Locomotive is a

I believe it's a combination of application and stack that's the problem. I've been comparing Rails 3 apps to similar apps in other frameworks. Locomotive is a Rails CMS and it was taking ~1 second per page load. Calypso is a CMS in Node.js and page loads were nearly instant. Both used Mongodb. Locomotive sped up when 4 unicorn workers were applied, but it still didn't match Node.js.