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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Startup snapshot for optimizing app load time
From: ua.san.alex@gmail.com ("S.A.N")

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 architectu=
ral weakness of current PHP setups, where a web server call out to the engi=
ne (via embedding or FastCGI) to execute a script, which causes this recurr=
ing 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 t=
o 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 th=
at approach IMO.
>

I agree, and developers are already discussing a common event-loop API:
https://github.com/async-interop/event-loop