I noticed it only uses libevent if the PECL dependency is satisfied. I'm not aware if this is now packaged by default, but I don't have it installed.
I can imagine any event-based library will now warrant a comparison to Node. However, I've not seen things like EventMachine calling itself Node.Ruby, or Tornado calling itself Node.Python. Or NginX calling itself Node.Server.
That's my bugbear. It feels like linkbait.
Re: the server stuff. I was poorly trying to make the point you made further up, about PHP not being well suited to long running processes or being daemonised. I may well be wrong, but each request will get its own event loop, no?
I can imagine any event-based library will now warrant a comparison to Node. However, I've not seen things like EventMachine calling itself Node.Ruby, or Tornado calling itself Node.Python. Or NginX calling itself Node.Server.
That's my bugbear. It feels like linkbait.
Re: the server stuff. I was poorly trying to make the point you made further up, about PHP not being well suited to long running processes or being daemonised. I may well be wrong, but each request will get its own event loop, no?