[Ambix]

Modern PHP frameworks initialize "entire application" only once at startup and process each request really fast.

See the benchmarking charts there: https://github.com/gotzmann/comet

[NationalPark]

It's interesting to see this comment here. In the usual quarterly arguing about PHP posts, the CGI-style "statelessness" is often brought up as a positive feature that differentiates PHP from more "modern" web app stacks.

[tinus_hn]

It is possible to get the best of both worlds if you support both, easy development and performant deployment.

[ldeangelis]

The performance seems pretty impressive! I'd like to see comet being added to techempower's benchmark, to see how it competes against other frameworks.