Experiments in concurrency 1: Single-threaded webservers in PHP and Node.js

• autocannon

  14 7,564 6.6 JavaScript

  fast HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js

The difference isn't much here because we only tested with 3 concurrent requests. Imagine if we had 50 requests at the same time, with each request taking 4s. That means we would have a response time as large as (4 * 50) = 200s. I tested this with autocannon:

• octane

  15 3,652 8.8 PHP

  Supercharge your Laravel application's performance.

  

If you'd still like to achieve concurrency within a PHP server, there are a few projects that try to provide this, the most notable of them being ReactPHP and Amp. The recently released Laravel Octane also provides this, with a much cleaner API over another project, Swoole.

• WorkOS

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• Swoole

  34 18,213 8.6 C++

  🚀 Coroutine-based concurrency library for PHP

  

If you'd still like to achieve concurrency within a PHP server, there are a few projects that try to provide this, the most notable of them being ReactPHP and Amp. The recently released Laravel Octane also provides this, with a much cleaner API over another project, Swoole.

• React

  40 8,815 3.9 PHP

  Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP.

  

If you'd still like to achieve concurrency within a PHP server, there are a few projects that try to provide this, the most notable of them being ReactPHP and Amp. The recently released Laravel Octane also provides this, with a much cleaner API over another project, Swoole.

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