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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Multithreading
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Bart de Boer wrote:
> 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.

There are no plans for this.  Asynchronous mechanisms are generally a 
much more efficient way to do this stuff.

-Rasmus