A comparison between Misultin, Mochiweb, Cowboy, Node.JS, and Tornado. Tests such as this one tend to focus on either raw parsing speed or total number of concurrent connections, and which is more important depends on the ultimate application. Or they perfectly tune the tester’s favorite framework and use a stock configuration for the other competitors. [...]
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Comparing Erlang, Go, Java, and C
Tim over at timyang.net has an interesting ‘hello world’ web server test between Erlang, Go, Java, and C. The C code is an nginx plugin, Java uses the MINA framework; Erlang and Go are small standalone apps. Java ‘won’, with Erlang in second place. Interesting article and the first I’ve seen comparing Go and Erlang [...]