node.js vs vertx.js

foo.html

100 bytes or 35000bytes of random data

node_server.js

var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');

var fileCache = null;
var fileLength = null;

fs.readFile("foo.html", function(err, file) {
  fileCache = file; // file.toString() for small files <1kb
  fileLength = fileCache.length;
});


var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html", "Content-Length": fileLength});
  res.end(fileCache);
});

server.listen(8080, '0.0.0.0');

siege results

NODE.JS - 100 bytes:
siege -b -c100 -r300 http://10.177.63.174:8080/
** SIEGE 2.70
** Preparing 100 concurrent users for battle.
The server is now under siege..      done.                                
Transactions:                   30000 hits
Availability:                 100.00 %
Elapsed time:                   4.10 secs
Data transferred:               2.86 MB
Response time:                  0.01 secs
Transaction rate:            7317.07 trans/sec
Throughput:                     0.70 MB/sec
Concurrency:                   96.94
Successful transactions:       30000
Failed transactions:               0
Longest transaction:            0.12
Shortest transaction:           0.00
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VERTX.JS - 100 bytes:
siege -b -c100 -r300 http://10.177.63.174:8080/
** SIEGE 2.70
** Preparing 100 concurrent users for battle.
The server is now under siege..      done.
Transactions:                   30000 hits
Availability:                 100.00 %
Elapsed time:                   4.47 secs
Data transferred:               2.86 MB
Response time:                  0.01 secs
Transaction rate:            6711.41 trans/sec
Throughput:                     0.64 MB/sec
Concurrency:                   93.03
Successful transactions:       30000
Failed transactions:               0
Longest transaction:            0.08
Shortest transaction:           0.00
--------------------------------------------------
NODE.JS - 35000 bytes:
siege -b -c100 -r300 http://10.177.63.174:8080/
** SIEGE 2.70
** Preparing 100 concurrent users for battle.
The server is now under siege..      done.
Transactions:                   30000 hits
Availability:                 100.00 %
Elapsed time:                   8.16 secs
Data transferred:            1001.36 MB
Response time:                  0.03 secs
Transaction rate:            3676.47 trans/sec
Throughput:                   122.72 MB/sec
Concurrency:                   96.83
Successful transactions:       30000
Failed transactions:               0
Longest transaction:            0.17
Shortest transaction:           0.00
--------------------------------------------------
VERTX.JS - 35000 bytes:
siege -b -c100 -r300 http://10.177.63.174:8080/
** SIEGE 2.70
** Preparing 100 concurrent users for battle.
The server is now under siege..      done.
Transactions:                   30000 hits
Availability:                 100.00 %
Elapsed time:                   8.04 secs
Data transferred:            1001.36 MB
Response time:                  0.02 secs
Transaction rate:            3731.34 trans/sec
Throughput:                   124.55 MB/sec
Concurrency:                   90.00
Successful transactions:       30000
Failed transactions:               0
Longest transaction:            2.07
Shortest transaction:           0.00

vertx_server.js

load('vertx.js');

var fileCache = null;
var fileLength = null;

vertx.fileSystem.readFile('foo.html', function(err, file) {
  fileCache = file;
  fileLength = file.length();
});

vertx.createHttpServer().requestHandler(function(req) {

  req.response.headers["Content-Length"] = fileLength;;
  req.response.headers["Content-Type"] = "text/html";
  req.response.end(fileCache);

}).listen(8080, '0.0.0.0');