[koakuma-chan]

> What I don't get is why is it that Node is dog slow. Seriously it seems borderline unusable.

This is in line with my experience using anything written in Node.js

[torginus]

Not on a dedicated server - if serving a db query in a rest endpoint took 100ms in Node, it wouldn't have gotten popular,

In my experience, Node perf is 'okay' - not stellar but a simple express/js handler certainly doesn't take 100ms. This sounds 10x-100x slower than running something similar on a dedicated instance.