> But even for web requests it's terrible Maybe you have specific needs? At Vimeo it runs reasonably well, with median response time around 30ms. > Or at leas

> But even for web requests it's terrible Maybe you have specific needs? At Vimeo it runs reasonably well, with median response time around 30ms. > Or at least, it was, last time I used it years ago Ah, PHP 7 was released three years ago and made some massive improvements to performance. > Couldn't really do any long-running tasks in response to an HTTP request We add something to a queue, and handle those tasks offline. Pretty simple. > or load a single data set into memory to share among all the HTTP requests over the lifetime of the server apc_store does that: http://php.net/manual/en/function.apc-store.php http://php.net/manual/en/function.apc-store.php (it's part of a very popular extension) > I'm quite happy that I haven't touched PHP in years. Cool, it's not for everyone and all use cases. But it's always there if you need it.