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Originally Posted by Βau
PHP7 + Pthreading runs as fast as F. People should try use it, I just scraped data from a huge danish database with no issues at all. Ran so fast and smooth.
I recommend people to check out php 7 atleast.
- Bau
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The main difference between PHP5 and PHP7 (a part from scalar type hints) is the speed, it's now hand by hand with HHVM and once JIT is fully implemented in PHP it will be as fast as C (here's a benchmark of different languages showing that php7 with jit support is faster than gcc:

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BTW if anyone wants to take a look at PThreads, here's a github repo: