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by exclusiv 3538 days ago
Yes it is comparable to Node. Most benchmarks show PHP with blocking calls against async Node calls. PHP has the tools to do async no problem. I use ReactPHP all the time to do this stuff; it works great for fast scraping.

See an older counter-point with the much slower PHP 5.5:

https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2013/11/12/benchmarking-codswall...