Yes it is comparable to Node. Most benchmarks show PHP with blocking calls against async Node calls. PHP has the tools to do async no problem. I use ReactPHP al

Yes it is comparable to Node. Most benchmarks show PHP with blocking calls against async Node calls. PHP has the tools to do async no problem. I use ReactPHP all the time to do this stuff; it works great for fast scraping. See an older counter-point with the much slower PHP 5.5: https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2013/11/12/benchmarking-codswallop-nodejs-v-php/ https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2013/11/12/benchmarking-codswall...