On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've benchmarked it before, but it should be obvious too.  Node is
> doing less work than nginx in this case.  (writing an already buffered
> response to the socket is much easier than reading a file from disk
> and then sending it to the socket.  Even sendfile has to spin up the
> disk even if the kernel is doing the rest)
>

I'm sorry, but if you think any OS is spinning the disk to serve a static
file you know nothing about how operating systems work. Benchmarks or GTFO
in this case.

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