PHP vs Node.js - Is HTML Rendering slower in Node.js with Jade?

Question

Assuming that we have millions of requests per day. Is the HTML processing in Node.js with Jade slower or faster than PHP\'s render engine? Or doesn\'t matter because th

Answer 1

Jade isn't designed for speed, it's designed for elegance. If you're really concerned with speed there are other javascript rendering engines that are faster.

Check out http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/63 (note that the chrome results match closely to node.js performance)

But that's all assuming the rendering engine is the bottleneck, and not the DB.