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PHP can do only one thing at a time. Usually (for websites) this isn’t a big problem because you only have to process a request. On the other hand, if you are doing something more time-consuming PHP could be to slow.
An example is my chat bot server (Mai Ocean). For each conversation I have to make a connection with a server, so for each conversation I have a socket that I have to listen and write to. So if 10 people are talking to my bot I have at least 11 socket connections (10 conversations + main server), you could imagine that this would be way to much for just one script. So how can we solve this? Continue reading →
