[nicoburns]

> what's the effective difference for most people (concerning perf and utilization) between multicore support in Java and Go and just running multiple processes in Node

The perf difference here probably isn't that great (although Java/Go will likely still be faster), but if you're at the point of running multiple processes you may well find that it's less dev effort to write your code in Java/Go (assuming you are familiar with both).

[eatonphil]

Yes I agree, it's always been simpler for me to operate Go apps rather than Node ones (but also because of memory usage in callback- and streaming-heavy JavaScript).