Obviously if you have node doing less it's going to be "faster". Or is it? I'm not really sure that offloading tasks qualifies as being faster. I'd like to see some data on this though. Basic caching as supplied with connect should serve static files pretty damn fast I would think. Perhaps nginx does that for a living and kicks ass, but node shouldn't be all that bad.
Obviously if you have node doing less it's going to be "faster". Or is it? I'm not really sure that offloading tasks qualifies as being faster. I'd like to see some data on this though. Basic caching as supplied with connect should serve static files pretty damn fast I would think. Perhaps nginx does that for a living and kicks ass, but node shouldn't be all that bad.