On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matt, > > I'm not offended by the tone. I understand the intent and tone are hard > to convey on the internet. That's why I love going to tech conferences to > meet people face to face. I hope to be at nodeconf this summer, maybe we > can discuss this there. > Thanks - probably won't get there - new startup, etc etc. I think some Haraka guys might try and talk there though - we'll see. Just to clarify for those who thought the tone was off - "benchmarks or GTFO" is a turn of phrase often used in the tech community to actually get some real results into a conversation rather than people talking around the subject. I'm surprised people haven't heard it said before. > But I do disagree with your statement "it's just that people need to > understand that Node will never be the high performance static file server > that nginx is. And trying to get there seems pretty futile to me". > Maybe the latter part was a bit strong (nothing is futile in coding - this shit is fun), but it's true that we'll never hit the performance of nginx, unless nginx is doing something really wrong (and let's assume I'm talking about Linux here - it may be significantly slower on Windows for all I know, but that's not a platform I will ever use). > I can see that you're just trying to do your civic duty and make sure > people know that serving static files isn't something node is good for. I > personally think it can be good for that. > It can be mediocre for that, yes - your needs are not high traffic, I would guess. Node can probably serve files faster than anyone but a top 1000 web site needs - I mean we're talking thousands of requests/sec here - enough to serve 100 million hits a day from a single box. But when people come with benchmarks saying "Node is slower than nginx!" they need to be told: Of course it is. I really don't mean to be a snot about this, and my tone reflected more of a bad personal time than anything to do with the list. Matt. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
