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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 12:58:10 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Fibers
From: aaron@trowski.com (Aaron Piotrowski)


> On Mar 8, 2021, at 1:40 PM, Aaron Piotrowski <aaron@trowski.com> =
wrote:
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> Greetings everyone!
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> The vote has started on the fiber RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/fibers =
<https://wiki.php.net/rfc/fibers>
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> Voting will run through March 22nd.
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> Cheers,
> Aaron Piotrowski

Hi all!

A concern was raised off list that due to the complexity of the way this =
feature interacts with the engine, it may be best to mark the feature as =
experimental. This would allow some changes to be made to certain =
edge-case behaviors and, while I don't think it would be necessary, the =
public API.

We (Niklas and I) agree with this and propose that if this feature is =
accepted, it is marked as experimental through the 8.x release cycle or =
until we're comfortable removing that label, whichever comes first.

Experimental in this context would mean fibers would be compiled and =
available in all releases, but the documentation would denote that =
behavioral and API changes may be made in future minor releases =E2=80=93 =
use at your own risk.

As this feature is targeted at library authors and not average PHP =
users, we believe there would be little effect to the community to take =
this step.

Cheers,
Aaron Piotrowski=