This is not a Ruby vs Node.js benchmark because Node.js is still a layer above the V8 Javascript engine. Moreover Node.js was optimize for things like concurre

This is not a Ruby vs Node.js benchmark because Node.js is still a layer above the V8 Javascript engine. Moreover Node.js was optimize for things like concurrency and this is similar to what eventmachine is optimized for. The difference is node.js makes the event model a language construct. I think it would have been better to use eventmachine but you did not because: > At first I tried to compare bare node.js against eventmachine_httpserver. It did quickly became obvious that this kind of micro-benchmark wasn’t going to be very helpful in deciding which one to choose. Your first observation was the correct one. The best thing to do is just pick a language and go with the best tools available.