As some of you already know, I’m the author of Misultin, an Erlang HTTP lightweight server library. I’m interested in HTTP servers, I spend quite some time trying them out and am always interested in comparing them from different perspectives. Today I wanted to try the same benchmark against various HTTP server libraries: Misultin (Erlang) Mochiweb (Erlang) Cowboy (Erlang) NodeJS (V8) Tornadoweb (
![A comparison between Misultin, Mochiweb, Cowboy, NodeJS and Tornadoweb](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/05d9cb927e7f8e93ba84971ed2007dfa9e4a904a/height=288;version=1;width=512/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ostinelli.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F05%2Fpawns.jpg)