Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:21086 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97929 invoked by uid 1010); 8 Dec 2005 00:45:23 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97912 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2005 00:45:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Dec 2005 00:45:22 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 194.109.253.196 mediawave.xs4all.nl Received: from ([194.109.253.196:17492] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 22/BF-14828-12287934 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:45:21 -0500 Message-ID: <22.BF.14828.12287934@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:46:30 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 194.109.253.196 Subject: Multithreading From: bart@mediawave.nl (Bart de Boer) Dear PHP creators, I was wondering. (And I'm probably the 1000th person asking this.) With all the multiple-core processors and servers popping up lately, are there any future (or current) plans for multithreading in PHP? It's not unlikely to have a PHP script that, for example, needs to send an email, do some database transactions and perhaps communnicate with a web service simultaneously. In such situations where the script needs to wait for multiple external actions it could really improve performance. I know there are other ways to do it. (It's possible to do "multithreading" with sockets.) Still I think it would be cool if there would be native support. As a fanatic PHP programmer it has always been something that I envy about in other languages. Bart