Nim/Node benchmarks

nimbenchmark.md

Environment:

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
• Nim Compiler Version 0.14.3 (2016-06-17) [Linux: amd64]
• node v5.10.1

Nim code:

import asynchttpserver, asyncdispatch

var server = newAsyncHttpServer()
proc cb(req: Request) {.async.} =
  await req.respond(Http200, "Hello World")

waitFor server.serve(Port(8080), cb)

Runned with:

$ nim c -r -d:release hello.nim

Results:

$ ./wrk -t4 -c200 -d30s -R100000 http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Running 30s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8080/
  4 threads and 200 connections
  Thread calibration: mean lat.: 729.308ms, rate sampling interval: 2648ms
  Thread calibration: mean lat.: 729.280ms, rate sampling interval: 2648ms
  Thread calibration: mean lat.: 729.579ms, rate sampling interval: 2648ms
  Thread calibration: mean lat.: 729.553ms, rate sampling interval: 2648ms
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     2.84s   768.85ms   4.16s    57.52%
    Req/Sec    21.59k   141.79    21.77k    64.29%
  2571660 requests in 30.00s, 122.63MB read
Requests/sec:  85724.10
Transfer/sec:      4.09MB

Nodejs code:

var http = require('http');

var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
  response.end("Hello World\n");
});

server.listen(8000);

Runned with:

$ node hello.js

$ ./wrk -t4 -c200 -d30s -R100000 http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Running 30s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8000/
  4 threads and 200 connections
  Thread calibration: mean lat.: 3769.548ms, rate sampling interval: 13410ms
  Thread calibration: mean lat.: 3768.957ms, rate sampling interval: 13410ms
  Thread calibration: mean lat.: 3769.025ms, rate sampling interval: 13410ms
  Thread calibration: mean lat.: 3769.891ms, rate sampling interval: 13410ms
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency    14.73s     4.17s   21.97s    57.68%
    Req/Sec     6.68k     1.73     6.68k    75.00%
  799318 requests in 30.00s, 85.38MB read
Requests/sec:  26644.06
Transfer/sec:      2.85MB