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You mention JS - I would be interested in seeing any benchmarks where the PHP interpreter beats V8.

These are web frameworks specifically but a good broad suite of examples: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&l=z...

An amazingly fast specialized JS runtime solution [1][2] does indeed have the #1 spot on the most recent rounds, but full PHP frameworks hold spots #2 - 29 and then it's a mixture of PHP and JS all the way to #58 before we see the first other language (python, uvicorn) emerge.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast...

[2] https://github.com/just-js

You can also do some pretty "fun" things with PHP leveraging the opcache. I wrote what in my own personal biased benchmark was the fastest mustache template renderer by transpiling mustache to php files and then "compiling" them with apc [1]. Kind of a poor man's staging / partial evaluation optimizer.

This is still running https://goldeneaglecoin.com/ whose framework (and HTML/CSS) is pretty much untouched since 2011. It is running on an ec2 t2.medium instance and is one of the fastest e-commerce sites i know.

[1] https://github.com/wesen/proust

wow, that was some incredible performance, never thought php could be this fast, I was in a dilemma on what language to focus on as an ordinary dev, think I'll stick with php for a while longer.

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