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Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP and parallelism
To: Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes>
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From: edmond.ht@gmail.com (Edmond Dantes)

>
> So practically speaking, it=E2=80=99s not worth designing around this yet=
. The engine would need massive adaptation before userland could safely tal=
k about =E2=80=9Cparallelism.=E2=80=9D
>

I agree. However, this question was raised. Perhaps there=E2=80=99s a large=
r
team of developers working on a new virtual machine for PHP? I don=E2=80=99=
t
know anything about that. But if that=E2=80=99s indeed happening, then the
topic becomes relevant.

As for me personally, I don=E2=80=99t see any practical benefit in introduc=
ing
multitasking to PHP. It would require significant development effort
while offering very little economic value in typical PHP use cases.
Still, it=E2=80=99s possible that someone plans to build a PHP-Native versi=
on
for a wider range of operating systems =E2=80=94 and in that case, such a
feature might indeed be needed.

--- Ed