On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 12:34 PM Kévin Dunglas <ke...@dunglas.fr> wrote:
> Hello and Merry Christmas! > > One of the main features of FrankenPHP is its worker mode, which lets you > keep a PHP application in memory to handle multiple HTTP requests. > > Worker modes are becoming increasingly popular in the PHP world. Symfony > (Runtime Component), Laravel (Octane), and many projects based on these > frameworks (API Platform, Sulu...) now support a worker mode. > > In addition to FrankenPHP, projects such as RoadRunner and Swoole provide > engines supporting worker modes. > > According to benchmarks, worker modes can improve the performance of PHP > applications by up to 15 times. > In addition to FrankenPHP, which is basically a SAPI for Go's integrated > web server, a new generation of SAPIs is currently under development. > Several SAPIs written in Rust (including one by the RoadRunner team) are > currently under development. > > These SAPIs, along with existing SAPIs, could benefit from a shared > infrastructure to build worker modes. > > > > The FrankenPHP code is written and should be easy to move around in PHP > itself, to enable other SAPIs to use it. > > In addition to sharing code, maintenance, performance optimization, etc., > the existence of a common infrastructure would standardize the way worker > scripts are created and provide a high-level PHP API for writing worker > scripts that work with all SAPIs that rely on this new feature. > > SAPIs will still have to handle fetching requests from the web server and > pausing the worker to wait for new requests (in FrankenPHP, we use > GoRoutines for this, in Rust or C, other primitives will have to be used), > but almost everything else could be shared. > > For reference, here's the FrankenPHP code I propose to integrate into > libphp: https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp/blob/main/frankenphp.c#L245 > > The public API is documented here: > https://frankenphp.dev/docs/worker/#custom-apps > > I'd like to hear what the community thinks about this. Would you be > interested in this functionality in PHP? Should I work on an RFC? > > If there's interest, I can work on a patch. > > Cheers, > -- > Kévin Dunglas > Much like Larry, I'm curious what sort of scope you imagine for this. Are you imagining something that is geared specifically towards HTTP requests, or would this be a more generic "PHP Application Worker" that might be spawned to handle other types of applications? Could we have a worker listen to a specific port and respond to or handle all requests on that port/device? Jordan
