Speed of PHP vs JavaScript?

Question

I am writing a script to tokenize file contents. I\'ve written a tokenizer in JavaScript, but it gets pretty slow with large files (5+ seconds). Since I\'m retrieving the fi

Answer 1

I just converted a script from PHP to Javascript and I have greatly increased performance.

Javascript seems much faster in mathematical calculations. I have personally witnessed the performance improvement, my PHP procedure in some cases also employed a few seconds of running, while the same procedure written in javascript takes at most a few milliseconds.

Although Javascript to be known as client-side language I run my code on the server side thanks to Node.js