(09-15-2016, 06:15 AM)Narf Wrote: No, that is exactly the opposite of what I'm saying.
You're equating effort to result, and also comparing a comparatively low-level (it being a language; PHP) server-side technology to a framework that has both server-side and client-side components.
Neither makes sense.
The client is irrelevant since PHP only runs on the server. Regardless of which stack you use on the server the client will always be JS.
Due to it's design Node will always be more efficient at handling high throughput. If it wasn't why would every single real-time framework use it?