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To: Mark Randall <marandall@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Fibers
From: aaron@trowski.com (Aaron Piotrowski)


> On Feb 12, 2021, at 3:47 PM, Mark Randall <marandall@php.net> wrote:
>=20
> On 12/02/2021 21:40, Aaron Piotrowski wrote:
>> I would like to open voting for this RFC around the beginning of =
March, so please review the minimal API and provide any feedback soon.
>=20
> Removing the scheduler was likely a good plan, but pretty please =
reconsider your future scope.
>=20
> It's going to be a really big pain to push people to use this =
functionality, only to have to re-write it 1 or 2 year later because a =
vastly superior syntax mechanism was introduced.
>=20
> If you can add async / await / delay / defer, even if it takes another =
month or so, that would likely make this RFC have a significantly bigger =
and more beneficial impact on userland.
>=20
> Mark Randall
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Hi Mark,

The Fiber API is only tangentially related to async / await, etc. Adding =
such a feature is a much larger proposal and would not be small =
undertaking. The future scope proposes using fibers in an async / await =
implementation, but async / await would not replace fibers.

The Fiber API would conflict or prevent async / await from being added =
to PHP in the future. The two APIs can coexist and serve different =
purposes.

Cheers,
Aaron Piotrowski=