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Message-ID: <200808241852.48656.arnaud.lb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Something to ponder on ZTS/TSRM
From: arnaud.lb@gmail.com (Arnaud Le Blanc)

Hi,

On Friday 22 August 2008 21:15:56 William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> 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.

The patch, if it is included, does not remove the current ZTS mode ;)
However the current mode does not guaranties that PHP will work if a request 
is started in a thread and continued in an other. If support for that is added 
in the future (TSRM already has a set of functions to allow that), this can 
work with the patch too.

Regards,

Arnaud