Drupal lives in its own separate category somewhere near Mars. Just because Drupal is slow does not mean that PHP itself is the reason why. > APC will only sav

Drupal lives in its own separate category somewhere near Mars. Just because Drupal is slow does not mean that PHP itself is the reason why. > APC will only save you the loading from the disk and compiling part Is that not the slowest part? According to the benchmarks here, http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7&test=json http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7..., PHP is only really slower than Node in serving up a plaintext response and a json serialization (although, it is only about a 5% difference in responses/sec between the two).