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"It allocates web server resources on an as-needed basis, not pre-allocating a large chunk of resources for each user. For example, Apache might assign 8MB to a user, while Node assigns 8KB"

What? Apache may allocate 8MB of stack space for each thread, but that doesn't mean it consumes that much memory. This is distorting facts.

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