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On my system (only tested with c=1) in a comparable minimalist setup, ruby does 1477.48 and node 2541.61. Not too bad but still 2 times slower.

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I'd even say that the biggest contributor to this difference is the non-blocking nature of Node. Using e.g. EventMachine would probably close the Gap between Node and Ruby even more.

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