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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Multithreading
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Hi,

I really do not see the point is worrying all too much about multi 
threading in PHP. Writing proper multi threaded code is hard and why 
bother? Your server is going to be busy doing tons of other things at 
the same time. So all your CPU's and cores should have plenty of things 
to do. Also PHP is a glue language, so by this virtue it should not 
require multi threading in order to get decent performance/latency for a 
request. Most of the work is performed elsewhere anyways (like inside 
your database server).

Of course you can use PHP to write deamons, hardcore number crunching, 
desktop apps. But this should never dominant decisions about the core of 
the language. So I welcome whatever Sara is playing with that can be 
added as an extension to PHP.

regards,
Lukas