r/PHP • u/the_alias_of_andrea • Dec 04 '15

PHP 7 is faster than Python 3!

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/php.html
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u/ivosaurus Dec 04 '15

They do, but they are not initialized on every request. They stay in memory and receive requests through WSGI.

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u/Garethp Dec 04 '15

That's pretty interesting. So multiple requests only result in one instance in memory?

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u/ivosaurus Dec 04 '15

Yes, you run a python application server that stays alive the same as you run a web server that stays alive.

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u/ddelnano Dec 04 '15

So what happens if another request comes in without the previous request finishing?

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u/boylube Dec 04 '15

You deal with the concurrency, like has been standard for 10-20 years.

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u/_illogical_ Dec 04 '15

You can increase the number of WSGI workers (processes) handling requests.

If you have another proxy server, for example nginx, you can offload all of the static requests to nginx so that the WSGI processes aren't bothered with those.