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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:22:28 -0800
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Subject: Re: Multithreading
From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon")

> 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?
>
I've got two...well...threads... going on this concept.... One is a very
non-true-threading apprach which involves a combination of ticks and
Runkit_Sandbox which I hope to get around to sooner rather than later.

The other is a longer-range plan designed to work specifically with
apache2-worker (though perhaps generalized to work with other threaded
SAPIs) to actually use some of those extra threads to link multiple real
interpreters together (allowing one request chain to start/shutdown another
in a sibling relationship -- as opposed to Runkit_Sandbox which is purely
parent/child).  Don't look for this anytime soon though.  It's in my
"wouldn't that be kinda cool" bin of projects to work on next to oggtheora
and a few unnamed beasts...

-Sara