> People saying you can get 10k req/s from Node.js is stupid. No, it's not, for exactly the reason you state: > You're not actually getting that on say, a sin

> People saying you can get 10k req/s from Node.js is stupid. No, it's not, for exactly the reason you state: > You're not actually getting that on say, a single low-end instance over the Internet Some languages are, of course, more efficient, but it doesn't matter - you can get very good performance out of any language/runtime - it's all about your architecture and infrastructure.