ngx-php

Pasir is like frankenphp, but in Rust. Very promising, but still early in development: https://github.com/el7cosmos/pasir Which uses the following Zend API bindings for Rust: https://github.com/davidcole1340/ext-php-rs There's also all sorts of interesting experiments, like ngx-php, which basically embeds PHP via Zend API inside an nginx binary: https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php And workerman, which has a hybrid backend of asio libraries, so you can get pretty fast runtimes: https://github.com/walkor/workerman

Also: - ngx-php: https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php - Workerman: https://github.com/walkor/workerman - ReactPHP: https://reactphp.org And the most recent benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=0...

Two questions: 1. Does Unit + PHP doing the typical “initialize & teardown” that PHP is know for? Or is Unit persisting the initialization/setup, hence why it’s achieving the way faster results? 2. How is Unit/PHP architecturally different than NGX-PHP (an event loop)? https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php

I like your question way better than mine :) Some follow-up … A. isn’t PHP on par perf wise to Hack these days? Re: “PHP is too slow” comment. B. have you ever looked into PHP-NGX? It’s perf looks impressive, though you lose the benefit of stateless https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21

Related to #2, doesn’t this then make PHP stateful - which some might argue is a negative. EDIT: have you looked at ngx-php. It’s blazing fast and provides you that event loop. https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21

The top PHP entry, "php-ngx-pgsql", uses a quite obscure way of running PHP and Nginx: https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx_php7 https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... Very similar to OpenResty, but with PHP instead of Lua. Which is funny, because OpenResty ranks lower.

It's important to note that all the PHP results that are high up on the lists are using Workerman[1] with the event module, Swoole[2] or ngx_php[3]. They don't use the traditional PHP runtime model, which boots up and tears down the world for every request. Global variables, which are no problem in "normal" PHP code, are going to cause serious trouble in these environments. They are essentially gluing a very fast async IO framework to a fairly minimal amount of PHP application code. The vast, vast majority of PHP code you will find in the wild is running a more traditional stack, and those results are much lower down the list. The results are still impressive though. PHP is very good at gluing fast C code together without slowing it down much. Especially Workerman is impressive, since it appears to still run a significant amount of PHP co