Benchmarks

Benchmarks

Shared VM, compare ratios not absolutes. Full matrix, methodology, ceilings (go-chi / axum / mongoose), and a one-command Docker repro: bench/RESULTS-v2.md.

subject json pipelined (-c100 -p10) cold start RSS after 100k req
ch3 on node 0.87× raw-node 0.95× 83 ms 116 MB
ch3 compiled (ELF) 1.15× raw-node 1.76× (204k rps) 3 ms 4 MB
fastify on node 0.69× 0.65× 111 ms 108 MB

The compiled build sits at ≥96% of a bare compiled node:http server on every cell: the router costs ~0.1-0.3 MB of binary and ~1 MB RSS.