Workerman VS Spiral Framework

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.

The code above is an example of creating a websocket server from the usage example on the workerman/workerman page on github.

Workerman

That's cute. I managed to get 100k requests per second on a single i7 CPU this week using standard blocking code with Workerman. Zero added cognitive load. It also does DB pooling, workers, sockets and consumes relatively lower memory than other solutions.

From the same developers :

PHP framework : https://spiral.dev/

ORM library : https://cycle-orm.dev/

This SDK server is already available for RoadRunner 2.0+ and Spiral Framework users.

✅ Spiral (Twig, Blade, Latte, Plates, Smarty, Handlebars, Mustache, Spiral View)

To give you some hint, you mention few of our instruments - RoadRunner, Cycle ORM. Accidentally, theese instruments are also part of our main battle framework - Spiral (https://github.com/spiral/framework), which we use for all of our commercial projects for over 12 years so far.

Check https://github.com/spiral/framework - it would satisfy your perf requirements (roadrunner under the hood). We pushed it up to 250k on synthetic hello world, but in real world 20k are achievable without much hassle.

Yes, you are responsible for cleaning the memory after yourself. Most of modern frameworks can do it for you since they can control the state using DI. If you are looking for a more friendly way to manage memory take a look at https://github.com/spiral/framework It is Symfony like framework developed specifically for resident memory applications.