...Porting “normal” components like routers to C is usually a big waste of time. You can get much better results by doing a few small improvements on the algorithmic side. For the same reason I’m not a big fan of things like Phalcon, i.e. PHP frameworks written as a C extension. You can get good performance by using an appropriate application design (that is not massively overengineered) and still retain the flexibility of keeping everything in PHP. A URI is dispatched by calling the dispatch() method of the created dispatcher. ...