Indeed. Node's IPC costs are orders of magnitude slower than Java's volatile or atomic datatypes. I would only choose Node for stateless or trivially paralleliz

Indeed. Node's IPC costs are orders of magnitude slower than Java's volatile or atomic datatypes. I would only choose Node for stateless or trivially parallelizable problems--e.g., those where I could push the state problem into a runtime with real threads. http://aphyr.com/posts/244-context-switches-and-serialization-in-node http://aphyr.com/posts/244-context-switches-and-serializatio...