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by sciurus 3538 days ago
"they just don't use the CGI model of spawning a new _OS_ process for every request"

Which isn't what PHP does, fwiw.

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What do you mean exactly? I mean yeah, it's a bit different with FastCGI when you have a pool of persistent processes. But you still basically boot up your whole application every time a request comes in. Opcode caching helps with loading code, but not execution. And you're still working with OS processes for concurrency, which is not ideal.