That’s a great question. Techempower just manages the repos-- people from each community submit the test implementation in each language, so it would behoove the Node devs to use the fastest possible configurations in their tests.
That PHP tes has curiously high stats compared to other full stack frameworks like larval, which rates much worse. Makes me wonder how it’s so fast.
Not any better. The existing tests were written by me and use the CommandBox docker container whichs runs a pure Java undertow web server which is blazing fast. Adding Nginx would literally just add a network hop to each request for no reason. These tests don’t hit any sort of static assets, so there’s no benefit to that.
On this topic, I just made a post with a larger comparison over on the Ortus Community: