>That doesn't take away the fact that n parallel requests will require n threads. What's your point? In PHP's model, n requests will take n processes. There's

>That doesn't take away the fact that n parallel requests will require n threads. What's your point? In PHP's model, n requests will take n processes. There's no event loop in PHP. The forked model has nothing to do with making scaling horizontally more straightforward. In either scenario, you'll end up running a different process on another machine once you exhaust your resources.