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I realize that running Node on top of the .net runtime will probably be significantly slower than running it on top of the highly optimized V8 engine, but some perf numbers would be interesting nevertheless.

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I don't think a javascript engine will ever be faster than .NET. Not debating the quality of the runtime, but win32 I/O Completion Ports and WSAAsyncSelect are up to par with Unix's (e|k)poll. With win32, your data will be hitting processor registers before the javascript engine ever has a chance to typecheck its arguments.

Never underestimate the sheer power of easily circumventable abstractions ;-)

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