If you consider something to be fast and scalable (e.g. Go), then something with ~80% of the throughput (e.g. Node in this test) is probably also pretty fucking

If you consider something to be fast and scalable (e.g. Go), then something with ~80% of the throughput (e.g. Node in this test) is probably also pretty fucking fast and scalable. Scalability and performance don't walk fine lines like that; there's a reason we talk about orders of magnitude.