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Sinatra

ruby 1.9.2 + async_sinatra + thin thin start

ab -n 10000 -c 100 http://localhost:3000/
-> 49ms / request

Node

node server.js

ab -n 10000 -c 100 http://localhost:3000/
-> 20ms / request

EventMachine HttpServer

ruby em_http_serv.rb

ab -n 10000 -c 100 http://localhost:3000/
-> 12ms / request

Goliath

ruby hello.rb -e prod -p 3000

ab -n 10000 -c 100 http://localhost:3000/
-> 50ms / request

config.ru

#!/usr/bin/env
require 'sinatra/async'

class AsyncTest < Sinatra::Base
  register Sinatra::Async

  aget '/' do
    body "hello async"
  end
end

run AsyncTest.new

em_http_serv.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'eventmachine'
require 'evma_httpserver'

class Handler  < EventMachine::Connection
  include EventMachine::HttpServer

  def process_http_request
    resp = EventMachine::DelegatedHttpResponse.new( self )

    resp.status = 200
    resp.content = "Hello World\n"
    resp.send_response
  end
end

EventMachine::run {
  EventMachine.epoll
  EventMachine::start_server("0.0.0.0", 3000, Handler)
  puts "Listening..."
}

hello.rb

require 'goliath'

class Hello < Goliath::API
  def response(env)
    [200, {}, "Hello World!"]
  end
end

server.js

// Load the http module to create an http server.
var http = require('http');

// Configure our HTTP server to respond with Hello World to all requests.
var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
  response.end("Hello World\n");
});

// Listen on port 8000, IP defaults to 127.0.0.1
server.listen(3000);

// Put a friendly message on the terminal
console.log("Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/");

I note that bare sinatra isn't included - my impression is that Sinatra::Async is for downstream optimization (e.g. don't block on db reads), because plain old sinatra with thin already has upstream asynch.