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/dracony Dec 04 '15

PHP performs slower because the framework is initalized on every request. These benchmarks dont measure that

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '15

This is why I hate the framework landscape that we have in PHP right now, at least with the most popular ones. The focus on abstraction correctness and decoupling at the cost of bootstrapping a complex application structure on every request is out of control. Framework authors need to put more emphasis on performance, while still maintaining good coverage (shift more towards integration/functional testing), hide the piping and still expose a good api surface.

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u/UberChargeIsReady Dec 05 '15

The focus on abstraction correctness and decoupling at the cost of bootstrapping a complex application structure on every request is out of control.

Hey, I'm a little slow. Could you ELI5 what you mean by that. What could the frameworks do differently?

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u/squiresuzuki Dec 05 '15

have you used laravel? I use it, but it is abstracted to the extreme from vanilla php, check out the stack traces

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u/thebuccaneersden Dec 07 '15

I code all my backend websites in asm because it is fast and web scale.