Node.PHP

Hey, So i had my first Hackathon at work last week and my project was to prototype making a node.js clone using PHP instead of V8. So i snatched up libuv and joyent's HTTP parser and set off on a 24 hour coding spree to get something workable. By the time the sun was coming out the next morning the following code was working. <?php $http = new node_http(); $http->listen(8080, function($request, $response) { $response->end("yay, super awesome response"); }); nodephp_run(); ?> The C code that powers it was whipped together really fast and is kind of hackish as a result. The code has some memory leaks that i haven't had time to fully track down yet. Some small portions of the code were borrowed from the phode project. In a naive benchmark on this simple server VS an equally simple server in node.js this implementation already out performs node.js in throughput by being able to serve just under 200% the amount of requests per second that node.js could. Take that with a grain of salt though because node.js has much more feature and is much more hardend from production use. I do believe the PHP binary will have some major performance gains over V8 as crossing the PHP <--> C barrier seems to be a much lighter operation then crossing the V8 <--> C++ barrier. Any help or feedback will be greatly appreciated. The projects source code can be found here: https://github.com/JosephMoniz/node.php - Joseph Moniz