vert.x vs node.js benchmark

node.js vs vertx

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instead of:
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//taken from https://github.com/purplefox/vert.x/blob/master/src/examples/java/httpperf/nodejs-server.js
http.createServer(function (req, res) {

  //asynchronous callback and file read on every request
  fs.readFile("foo.html", function(err, file) {
     if (err) {
        console.error(err);
     } else {
         res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html", "Content-Length": file.length});
         res.write(file);
         res.end();
     }
  });
}).listen(8080, 'localhost');



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try:
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//explicitly cached variable
var file = fs.readFileSync("foo.html");
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html", "Content-Length": file.length});
    res.write(file);
    res.end();
}).listen(8080, 'localhost');