I don't doubt that but apparently we have different definitions of a lot. Additionally latency and hardware also matters, I can say that C is doing n things a s

I don't doubt that but apparently we have different definitions of a lot. Additionally latency and hardware also matters, I can say that C is doing n things a second while PHP is doing the same but C is running on EC2 micro instance and PHP is running on 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 9282 dedicated machine. C10K problem was not solved by 1:1 model and this is an old problem. C100K+ is what I see in some of production systems I work on.