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Welcome! Curious, after being out of the PHP world for some time... is being single-threaded a true limitation, or is that just a talking point of naysayers?

Aaron lawrence @TheAaronLawrence2haa1382a

Damn, PHP has been handling concurrency for decades. It just does it the way my family handles conversations: everyone in a separate room, shouting.

Michael Born @michaelborn2h

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie. I know you can scale PHP quite a bit via good caching layers, etc. before the CPU performance becomes a serious bottleneck. Just wondering what the hive mind thinks on it these days.

5:46 PM · Oct 16, 2026commit 19bd202

Michael Born @michaelborn2h

Best article I've found on this mentions tools like ReactPHP to switch to parallel tasks when one task becomes IO bound: https://lencode.com/blog/php-is-not-single-threaded-but-your-web-requests-are-mostly-?i=1

Aaron lawrence @TheAaronLawrence2h

It’s mostly a talking point now. Workers handle concurrency fine for typical web apps, and FrankenPHP/Octane, and others along with queues cover most of the cases where it used to hurt. Real CPU-bound work is the main exception.