And luvit is probably faster than node https://github.com/luvit/luvit https://github.com/luvit/luvit but anyway your benchmark uses javascript, which is slower

And luvit is probably faster than node https://github.com/luvit/luvit https://github.com/luvit/luvit but anyway your benchmark uses javascript, which is slower in vert.x, use Java instead and it will be faster....