The article discusses the use of the WebSocket protocol for bidirectional communication channels between browsers and web servers. It presents a simple WebSocket benchmark in JavaScript comparing Node.js and Bun runtime environments. The benchmark shows that Bun is 40% faster than Node.js in this test. It also mentions that Node.js clients are faster when using a Node.js server, and suggests that WebSocket is more efficient than repeatedly polling servers.

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