Node CGI vs. HTTP server

cgi.js

process.stdout.write("Hello world!");

http.js

var http = require("http");
var server = http.createServer(function(request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
  response.write("Hello world!");
  response.end();
});

server.listen(7777);
console.log("Server is listening");

profile.py

import timeit
import requests

print 'CGI: %.4fs' % timeit.timeit("subprocess.check_output(['node', 'cgi.js'])",
                                   'import subprocess', number=100)
print 'HTTP: %.4fs' % timeit.timeit("requests.get('http://localhost:7777/').content",
                                    "import requests", number=100)

result

# run "node http.js" in another console
python2.7 profile.py
CGI: 3.2942s
HTTP: 0.1447s