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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:09:08 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Fibers
From: petk@php.net (Peter Kokot)

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 Hello everyone,

I'm just adding a few cents into this discussion.

I've voted "yes" because we don't have any other async stuff RFCs available
nor in the preparation. PHP needs such functionalities very badly and very
quickly to sort of speak. Adding a brand new extension in the core is maybe
a strange practice because it usually should go into PECL first and after
being adopted by the ecosystem it could be then moved to php-src after a
vote. However, practical reasons show that PECL extensions are not first
class citizens. In most cases adopting extensions could take even longer.
With somehow similar logic, I've also supported FFI extension and even Jit
RFCs already in 7.4.

Regarding Swoole, Swoole is a great production-ready framework that
provides such functionality also already today. It is definitely worth
checking out from a user perspective and can live along the ext-fiber just
fine, I believe. If Swoole won't be integrated in core (it is a separate
standalone project), then hopefully, PHP core could learn and be inspired
by Swoole as it's already implemented in production with unbeatable
performance.

Thank you to the RFC authors and everyone involved in making this happen.

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