Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly

Re:Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly by jw1224 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @04:32PM (#40459574)

This seems like a misunderstanding, WebAssembly has nothing to do with PHP’s internal performance mechanisms. WASM is a compilation target, this means you can take code which needs to be compiled (like PHP’s core binary), and compile it to be run in a browser.

PHP in WASM means developers can run actual, real, native PHP code in the user’s browser, without the user needing to have PHP installed locally, or nginx, etc…

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Re:Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly by pavlov on Thursday May 23, 2024 @04:52PM (#40459767)

You could do that, but the post here is in fact about running PHP on a server on top of a Wasm runtime.

“At the edge” basically means “close to the user”, with the details left as an exercise to whoever is selling you their “edge.” In this case, it’s a Wasm runtime company.

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Re:Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly by pjmlp on Thursday May 23, 2024 @04:45PM (#40459690)

Because I always wanted to run PHP in the browser.

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