Silk Vs. Node

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enki:~ sh1mmer$ ab -t 30 -k -c 10 "http://127.0.0.1:9090/"
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1178079 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Completed 5000 requests
Completed 10000 requests
Completed 15000 requests
Completed 20000 requests
Completed 25000 requests
Completed 30000 requests
Completed 35000 requests
Completed 40000 requests
Completed 45000 requests
Completed 50000 requests
Finished 50000 requests


Server Software:        SILK
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            9090

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        2412 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   7.398 seconds
Complete requests:      50000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Keep-Alive requests:    50000
Total transferred:      129900000 bytes
HTML transferred:       120600000 bytes
Requests per second:    6758.31 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1.480 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.148 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          17146.57 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Processing:     0    1   5.8      1     142
Waiting:        0    1   5.8      1     142
Total:          0    1   5.8      1     142

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%      1
  66%      1
  75%      1
  80%      1
  90%      2
  95%      4
  98%      8
  99%     16
 100%    142 (longest request)
enki:~ sh1mmer$ ab -t 30 -k -c 10 "http://127.0.0.1:8000/"
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1178079 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Completed 5000 requests
Completed 10000 requests
Completed 15000 requests
Completed 20000 requests
Completed 25000 requests
Completed 30000 requests
Completed 35000 requests
Completed 40000 requests
Completed 45000 requests
Completed 50000 requests
Finished 50000 requests


Server Software:        
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            8000

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        10 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   2.225 seconds
Complete requests:      50000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Non-2xx responses:      50000
Keep-Alive requests:    50000
Total transferred:      7150000 bytes
HTML transferred:       500000 bytes
Requests per second:    22473.59 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       0.445 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.044 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          3138.40 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.0      0       1
Processing:     0    0   0.3      0      10
Waiting:        0    0   0.3      0       9
Total:          0    0   0.3      0      10

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%      0
  66%      1
  75%      1
  80%      1
  90%      1
  95%      1
  98%      1
  99%      1
 100%     10 (longest request)
enki:~ sh1mmer$ 

tldr

Silk - head

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   7.398 seconds
Complete requests:      50000

Node 0.8.2

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   2.225 seconds
Complete requests:      50000