Agreed. I benchmarked Node/V8 vs. the JVM and while Node has lower memory usage, Java is as performant while being more reliable, with less variance in HTTP res

Agreed. I benchmarked Node/V8 vs. the JVM and while Node has lower memory usage, Java is as performant while being more reliable, with less variance in HTTP response times, due to the better garbage collector. http://www.slideshare.net/olegp/server-side-javascript-going-all-the-way http://www.slideshare.net/olegp/server-side-javascript-going... - there are some graphs from slide 46 onwards.