In the test, the node code is actually calling an asynchronous function fs.readFile on every single request: https://gist.github.com/2650401 https://gist.githu

In the test, the node code is actually calling an asynchronous function fs.readFile on every single request: https://gist.github.com/2650401 https://gist.github.com/2650401 Even with os caching there is still quite a bit of overhead there. Would be interesting to see the benchmarks run on the corrected code: https://gist.github.com/2650401 https://gist.github.com/2650401