Sending Emails via Artisan Command - Performance

Hello everyone,

I'm having a bit of trouble seeing some performance improvements while sending out a news email to approximately 60 recipients.

This is not a app which the recipient list will grow, and may get to 200 emails max which is why I haven't implemented mail delivery such as mailchimp etc.

Previously, in the store command I was sending out emails one by one via the following:

        $post->save();
        
        $staff_id_array = StaffNotification::where('esd_news', '1')->get('staff_id');
        
        $staff_ids = array();

        foreach($staff_id_array as $id)
        {
            array_push($staff_ids, $id['staff_id']);
        }

        $staff = Staff::find($staff_ids);
        Notification::send($staff, new NewAdminNewsPosted($post));

        return redirect()->route('esd.admin.posts.show', $post->id)->with('success', 'Post Created');

And then transitioned the action of sending an email to:

        $post->save();
        
        $staff_id_array = array();
        foreach(StaffNotification::where('esd_news', '1')->get('staff_id') as $s) {
            array_push($staff_id_array, $s);
        }

        \Artisan::call('EmailAdminNewsPost', ['post' => $post, 'staff_id_array' => $staff_id_array]);

        return redirect()->route('esd.admin.posts.show', $post->id)->with('success', 'Post Created');
       	

I have was surprised after moving this from our Dev to production that this change did not yield and speed increase when running the store function. I was expecting that by calling the artisan command the store method would be processed much quicker while the command line sends the emails.