YES
Yes, in the techempower benchmarks node.js went from 20k/s to 30k/s when removing url.parse
.
The implementation is very slow like most node.js modules (I have rewritten 3x-75x speed improvements on several "de facto standard" node modules, just check my github profile).
I have actually planned a url.parse
rewrite too. But yes, if you can avoid it then you should avoid it.
Update
This fixes the performance problem: https://npmjs.org/package/fast-url-parser . It has exactly same api and semantics but it is 25-30x faster and would not affect the transaction rate at all in your example.