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In my testing I found no difference in response time for a web app running in Node.js vs Bun.


ThePrimeagen did some benchmarks on stream recently - he found Bun to be slightly better in terms of average response time, but the biggest gain was P99 / P99.9 values under heavy load.

NodeJS seems to drop the ball on a handful of requests when it's getting slammed, i.e. upwards of 10s vs average of 100ms. Bun had a much smaller P50/P99 spread.




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