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Django faster than raw PHP or Phalcon. I find that hard to believe. Are we talking PHP7?

I didn't do a benchmark. Phalcon is probably faster than Django (by a few miliseconds) but it is a compiled extension and also doesn't have all the functionality that Django has.

Django compared to Laravel (which is now probably the most popular PHP framework) is orders of magnitude faster. This is what I meant with Django being faster that PHP (this statement compares a framework with a programming language - not fair)

Without a benchmark I remain unconvinced. PHP7 performance was shown to have doubled since 5.6 in most cases, including with frameworks like Laravel. Prior to PHP7 it wasn't noticeably slower than Python.

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