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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:36:09 -0700
To: Aran Reeks <cdtreeks@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for Async / Await
From: hello@judahwright.me (Judah Wright)

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I really like this idea, non-blocking IO via asynchronous operations in 
PHP would be amazing.

I am running into an issue right now where I want to listen to several 
different socket streams for data. One example of this would be:
Open socket AWait for dataClose socket AOpen socket BWait for dataClose 
socket B
This would be so much easier if I could just listen on both in a non-IO 
blocking fashion. I would find this immensely useful.

~Judah

On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 8:59 pm, Aran Reeks <cdtreeks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Internals,
> 
> Since the start of PHP 7, we've seen some amazing performance 
> improvement
> version by version as a result of core updates.
> 
> Now some of the biggest wins have been implemented (with JIT due for 
> PHP
> 8), I'd personally love to see support for Async / Await introduced in
> PHP's as a core language feature too.
> 
> Being able to perform tasks in parallel such as reading or writing to 
> DB,
> cache, queues... Would be a massive advantage and the performance 
> gains
> from it could be really exciting!
> 
> Looking at how Hack has implemented support, this seems like it could 
> be a
> great start for a RFC, what does everyone else think?
> 
> Here's a link to Hack's implementation for reference:
> <https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/asynchronous-operations/some-basics>
> 
> Thoughts welcome from everyone.
> 
> Cheers,
> Aran


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