I'd rather see a benchmark of a more real-world case. These hello world microbenchmarks don't show anything.

It's useless for absolute perf but to compare 2 solutions doing the same job, it's a good start.

True, these hello world benchmarks are not indicative of real world performance, but suspect React would be significantly slower than node.js at a hello world showdown.

Challenge accepted: https://gist.github.com/2666633 - although I just had to update the results from a week ago.

Thanks for taking the time. node.js r/sec = 9307.96, react.php = 1573.40. Quite a difference.