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Yes PHP, that's how it all started with CGI. This provenance also dictates that PHP must be fast to load. I'm often surprised at how fast a PHP process will com
by lolc 8y ago
Yes PHP, that's how it all started with CGI. This provenance also dictates that PHP must be fast to load. I'm often surprised at how fast a PHP process will complete in comparison to Python.
Still, I remember having to cache initialization state in PHP because it took too long to build it on every request. That's when the model breaks down and you prefer a server with state.
- throwawayjava 8y ago>Still, I remember having to cache initialization state in PHP because it took too long to build it on every request. That's when the model breaks down and you prefer a server with state. I also had this problem, but fortunately, I could always buy my way out of the problem better hardware and maybe one afternoon of optimization. I finally shut down the last of my PHP side projects because of pervasive security issues and a dwindling/dead community. I recently reinstalled one of those sites on a DO droplet. Getting the right versions of everything took an entire weekend, but I eventually succeeded. The droplet had way more RAM and a faster CPU than I had access to back in the day. But holy hell those pages still loaded so slowly. I probably didn't notice at the time because internet connections were so much slower and waiting for an HTTP page with a few images to load was normal. But those load times would be absolutely unacceptable today.