This is a simple hello world HTTP Go server to find a baseline number for performance comparisons.
You'll need Go and Node installed.
go run main.go
Now run apache bench;
ab -n 1000000 -c 8 -k http://127.0.0.1:8080/
The test was run on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), 3 GHz Intel Core i7 with 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory.
Concurrency Level: 8
Time taken for tests: 20.064 seconds
Complete requests: 1000000
Failed requests: 0
Keep-Alive requests: 998005
Total transferred: 158990025 bytes
HTML transferred: 20000000 bytes
Requests per second: 49839.65 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 0.161 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.020 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 7738.29 [Kbytes/sec] received
None. But I thought it would be faster.