The well known and standard cluster module (see http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html) does exactly that; I wish the author had

The well known and standard cluster module (see http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html) does exactly that; I wish the author had examined its performance in the article, because I am sure his native Windows solution would be faster, though I'm not sure how much.