workerman

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...

Yeah one could use https://github.com/walkor/workerman for PHP and it would probably beat all other frameworks in the graph. Would it be a representative experience compared to PHP? No, because that's not would be used in an average scenario.

I remember a consulting gig where they were pushing 50k requests per second with PHP in a 2018 laptop by using this framework https://github.com/walkor/workerman In a real application, with database connection pooling and auth sessions, it went down to 15k requests/s. And that was PHP7. PHP8 introduced JIT so it's probably significantly faster these days and hopefully fully typed.

Fyi someone took pcntl_fork() in PHP seriously and made WorkerMan: https://github.com/walkor/workerman/blob/515ed41ac4fc51fc995... A quick test got me 50k req/s HTTP "hello world" on my laptop. The madlad even managed to place PHP in top 22 TechEmpower benchmark: https://i.imgur.com/6fKUpbV.png

Unfortunately some people have no respect for open source maintainers time and do open issues with little to no context. Take a look at the issues of any popular Github project to see this phenomenon exacerbated. Coincidentally I stumbled upon an example today while randomly browsing Github projects. A project with 9k stars and someone opens an issue basically saying: "commands do not work": https://github.com/walkor/Workerman/issues/611 I don't mean to do finger pointing at this person. It's a common behaviour. For maintainers it's exhausting to pursue each and every issue, asking for context. And if you don't keep a tight leash on them or use a bot they just pile up to hundreds of issues.

Workerman [1] uses a similar approach to put PHP pretty high on TechEmpower [2]. Specially now with PHP8's JIT. [1] https://github.com/walkor/Workerman [2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks

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