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I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world

14 points EGreg 1 day ago 6 comments

mpalmer 18 minutes ago | parent

I'm confused why the copy you generated repeatedly boasts "no nginx, no Redis" as if those things don't exist independently of application servers for a reason, and as if building something that doesn't need these things (when deployed as a single instance) is particularly notable.

"no Docker" - so what? Docker is a tool. Running containers on Linux has extremely low overhead. No idea what this is about.

You didn't spend the effort to decorate the slop with your rationale for these choices, so I see no evidence that you built any of this.

tobz1000 11 minutes ago | parent

One of the biggest shortcomings I often see with LLM-produced content, following a planning conversation, is that they misunderstand the breadth of the domain for which a detail is relevant or interesting.

So if it fixes a bug where function was accidentally deleting a file, it will update the function's documentation with "does not delete any important files", as if that's a key feature and not just one of a million things it should not do.

The same pattern repeats when an LLM is left to generate its own copy after a brainstorming and architecting session. It has no concept of what's important to the end-user.

ramon156 6 minutes ago | parent

The only LLM that does this wel (in my opinion) is gemini. if i ask claude to fix comments, it very clearly fails in doing so. Gemini actually seems to understand the scope of a task

bel8 8 minutes ago | parent

In the context of PHP it is notable to be able to run a production grade web server without nginx/apache/docker in front of it.

PHP doesn't have a production grade built-in server like .NET's Kestrel.

LoganDark 8 minutes ago | parent

You don't need your database on a dedicated server. Not sure why the comparison table claims "$30 + DB server" when your web server is a perfectly good server already.

iinnPP 3 minutes ago | parent

Presumably to remove it from the need to calculate. Everyone is using a different approach and one DB may require a lot more than the 30$ server can provide.

Now everyone can understand the math.