I'm not a big fan when folks call out languages as bottlenecks when they have no proof on the actual overhead and how much faster it would be in another language.
Most PHP deployments barely reach a hundred per server.
And this is an open source project is should be designed to handle basic production workloads which it could but it'll cost you a bunch more than if you used the correct languages.
> I'm not a big fan when folks call out languages as bottlenecks when they have no proof on the actual overhead and how much faster it would be in another language.
Honestly, I thought it was so obvious that an interpreted language is not good for high throughput endpoints that it didn't need to be proven. I also thought it was obvious that a logging system is going to handle lots and lots of data.
It could be easily proven by doing a bunch of work but obviously there is no point in me proving it.
We're running out of disk space earlier than that PHP is a bottleneck here.
There's just no way that you're at all familiar with PHP of the last 10 years to think this is true.
> It could be easily proven by doing a bunch of work but obviously there is no point in me proving it.
Prove it. Please, show me the context and environment you think PHP would struggle to serve "hundreds of requests per second". I'd venture a bet that a plain Laravel installation on the cheapest digital ocean droplet would top this and Laravel is "slow" in relation to vanilla PHP.
> It could be easily proven by doing a bunch of work but obviously there is no point in me proving it.
Because you cannot prove it... :) I wrote this post a few years ago, that actually spurned some improvements in C# ... so here you go: https://withinboredom.info/2022/03/16/yes-php-is-faster-than...
The author writes that Clickhouse takes 0.1s for an example request: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42666703
PHP would need to be adding 0.1s CPU time for processing the request for the PHP code to become the bottleneck. That seems unlikely.
