Re: Proposal: Startup snapshot for optimizing app load time

2016-04-19 19:54 GMT+03:00 David Zuelke <dz@heroku.com>: > I think this solution is merely a band-aid for a more profound architectural weakness of > current PHP setups, where a web server call out to the engine (via embedding or FastCGI) to execute > a script, which causes this recurring initialization overhead in the first place. > > The future is (or should be) servers implemented fully in PHP code (e.g. PHP-PM), just like > every other comparable language (Ruby, Python, Java, ...) already does. That also brings many other > benefits, such as the ability to handle upgrades to WebSockets in the same codebase, stream request > bodies as they're being uploaded, and so forth. > > And the performance figures that PHP-PM delivers with Symfony validate that approach IMO. > I agree, and developers are already discussing a common event-loop API: https://github.com/async-interop/event-loop