Re: Node.PHP

Very nice! I'll have a proper look at this in the morning, and I'll try it out for myself. Looking forward to seeing more development on this. Michael On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Joseph Moniz <joseph.moniz@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >