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Subject: Something to ponder on ZTS/TSRM 
From: wrowe@rowe-clan.net ("William A. Rowe, Jr.")

As far as the future direction of embedded PHP (and let's agree here
we aren't talking about every application, for mass vhosters some
fcgi or suid flavor of PHP is going to remain a better choice, and
for others, so we can avoid that debate)...

The next direction for server worker pools will likely be a threadless
connection; while waiting for your POST body the php engine environment
will most efficiently be parked and resumed on another thread.  (Some
code has been started in this direction at httpd although there are
no corresponding 'engine' hacks yet for embedded language systems.)

So although the new patches look great for a threading application,
keep in mind that a more traditional zts mode may be worthwhile to
retain.