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Yokohiii on Feb 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: More than one million requests per second in Node....

Having lower latency and bigger throughput is always good. But will it have any impact in real apps? Memory management and IO aren't gone just because your http stack is fast. The average node app will probably fall way behind just because of GC.

coldtea on Feb 4, 2017 [–]

>Having lower latency and bigger throughput is always good. But will it have any impact in real apps?

Obviously yes.

>Memory management and IO aren't gone just because your http stack is fast.

Obviously yes again. But they are helped by it.

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