Ok -- you got it. I've updated the gist with the same template running through Express. https://gist.github.com/3905579 https://gist.github.com/3905579 Take n

Ok -- you got it. I've updated the gist with the same template running through Express. https://gist.github.com/3905579 https://gist.github.com/3905579 Take note that the margin of variance on these numbers is several hundred, so don't read too much into small shifts ... but: With Express, and "c=1", I get 1,876 requests per second. With Express, and "c=10", I get 2,730 requests per second. There isn't meaningful overhead imposed by Express for this particular simple template rendering.