Comment by zexias

That is not a problem with PHP itself, but the way that Apache/Nginx operates PHP. However, if you want to go full PHP, there is this extension that is pretty amazing (has a built-in server on it and more): https://www.swoole.co.uk/

ps: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src/issues/1401 some performances benchmark (they compare it even with golang)