Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
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Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
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Re: Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
#2So.. it's like gunicorn (pre-fork web server) but for PHP and built on top of Caddy?
Looks neat!
Re: Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
#3So after looking at the slidedeck on the authors blog, I'm rather confused. How does FrankenPHP keep the code in memory if each request is in a separate memory space?
Re: Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
#4I'll have to try this out!
Re: Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
#5So after looking at the slidedeck on the authors blog, I'm rather confused. How does FrankenPHP keep the code in memory if each request is in a separate memory space?
They're probably using PHP's built in opcache or something they rolled themselves
OPcache improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory
Re: Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
#6I've been watching how Go and Rust tooling has been finding its way into the JavaScript ecosystem. I've been out of the PHP realm for about 10 years but I did find RoadRunner for PHP at one point. That's also an app server written in Go I believe. I wonder how this compares.
Re: Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
#7So after looking at the slidedeck on the authors blog, I'm rather confused. How does FrankenPHP keep the code in memory if each request is in a separate memory space?
See Preloading which landed in PHP 7.4 https://stitcher.io/blog/preloading-in-php-74
Re: Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
#8So after looking at the slidedeck on the authors blog, I'm rather confused. How does FrankenPHP keep the code in memory if each request is in a separate memory space?
They're probably using PHP's built in opcache or something they rolled themselves OPcache improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.opcache.php
opcache is definitely on https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp/blob/f97f56d45a403342b...
Re: Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
#9Félicitation !
Do you have any success story with this application server ?
Re: Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
#10Looking at the forked PHP source https://github.com/php/php-src/compare/master...dunglas:php-... I do not expect compatibility issues.