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PHP fast? Compared to all popular web frameworks it's quite low in the pecking order when it comes to performance.

Not sure where you got that from. It’s equally if not faster then python, faster then Java, slower then compiled language, faster then ruby. Loses to NodeJS most of the time.

But who cares, we are literally talking millisecond differences between them all. Throw a reverse proxy, DB into the mix and a few packages and they are all slow.

And if we actually want to talk speed, PHP with something like Swoole or ReactPHP is many times even faster[0] than the already fast regular PHP.

[0]: https://medium.com/@dimdev/9-php-runtimes-performance-benchm...

> faster then Java

You sure about that? Not what I would have expected. Source?

My point was less about the leaderboards and more about it being pointless comparison. But I was looking at https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/result?l=java,p... though I don't really know what people consider "best benchmark" for raw vs raw. Once you start throwing in apache/nginx/proxies/what ever it really starts to balance itself.

> equally if not faster then python

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> faster then Java

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> faster then ruby

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Definitely not faster than Java if we're talking single thread performance.

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