[mrb]

I see. I must have gotten confused somewhere then. node.js+net+crcr was calling setEncoding, but you are indeed not calling setEncoding in node.js+net...

I think the ideal is a bunch of little synthetic benchmarks, similar to the Hello World, plus a handful of real-world examples like the one checking a password. You want something that stresses the CPU / RAM (not network), since that's where the interesting differences are between these scripting environments.

[simonhf]

Sounds good. How many lines of code do you think the password check test would be in node.js? If it's not too long then could you imagine doing the node.js version?