Thats interesting. In PHP world the situation radically different: modern frameworks based on libevent are really speed up web apps up to 10x.

I've thoroughly benchmarked my own framework[1] for REST APIs and now it outperforms many of Go / Node.js platforms on Techempower[2]

[1] https://github.com/gotzmann/comet

[2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=e...