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Both Java and Node.js offer excellent performance, running counter to the myth that JavaScript is slow and therefore Node.js performance must be bad

Node.js performance is riding the coattails of Google investment in V8 to speed up the Chrome browser

The intense competition between browsers is making JavaScript more and more powerful every year, benefitting Node.js

Sounds ammmmazing! So JS is really damn fast and on a par with Java, right? But wait, are there any numbers?

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=...

Ouch.