PHP is performant compared to other similar scripting languages, and in any case, the database is usually the bottleneck.
If you look at the "multiple queries" results of the web framework benchmarks, you'll notice that the frameworks that use blocking database drivers have similar numbers e.g. raw Symfony is 13,543, whilst Spring is 15,979, despite the JRE being much, much faster.
If you look at the "multiple queries" results of the web framework benchmarks, you'll notice that the frameworks that use blocking database drivers have similar numbers e.g. raw Symfony is 13,543, whilst Spring is 15,979, despite the JRE being much, much faster.
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...