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Sorry, can somebody explain me how this works? Obviously, I'm missing something. Is the code being interpreted on the server-side? Then my question is, how fast it is and if it's capable to serve large number of connections? Actually, it's very exciting if it runs no slower than Java.

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Yes, it's being executed on the server. It's very fast - 3,500 requests a second for returning a "hello world" string with 100 simultaneous connections, and because its all event based it should be able of handling thousands of concurrent connections without much trouble (I haven't tried yet because my laptop runs out of file descriptors).

You know you can just bump allowed file descriptors up with ulimit, right?

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