This does not matter. PHP always starts, then exists immediately. This means you cant run something trivial as a websocket server in traditional PHP. I know th

This does not matter. PHP always starts, then exists immediately. This means you cant run something trivial as a websocket server in traditional PHP. I know theres some caching, but each request needs "the entire state" of the PHP app, and some frameworks like laravel or symfony are huge, and this is clearly visible when you notice how poor PHP performance is in basic req/sec benchmarks.