python -m SimpleHTTPServer cannot be configured from the command line. You'll need to write an additional py script to do anything useful. It's also missing a bunch of features you are going to want, like AutoIndex.
It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
My node.js project spreads all node.js i/o across multiple node processes ( in machine, network, or browser ) and creates a distributed EventEmitter across all nodes.
It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.