[philstu]

Nobody should be downvoting you, you raise an excellent point and you are of course right.

NodeJS v0.10.21 + Cheerio

real 0m47.986s user 0m7.252s sys 0m1.080s

NodeJS v0.10.21 + Cheerio + 64 connections

real 0m14.475s user 0m8.853s sys 0m1.696s

PHP 5.5.5 + ReactPHP + phpQuery

real 0m15.989s user 0m11.125s sys 0m1.668s

Considerably quicker! As I said I was sure NodeJS could go faster, but the point of the article was that PHP itself is not just magically 4 times slower, it is in fact almost identical when you use almost identical approaches. :)