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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Move pecl_sync to core
From: jpauli@php.net (Julien Pauli)

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Leigh <leight@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 September 2014 04:06, guilhermeblanco@gmail.com
> <guilhermeblanco@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is a new RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/sync
>>
>> Thoughts appreciated.
>>
>
> What are the actual benefits of this being included in core? The RFC
> doesn't really list any.
>
> Also, there was a discussion in June (started by Julien) about
> refactoring PHPs IO layer, where many people expressed a wish to have
> something libuv based in core, this comes with cross-platform
> semaphors and mutexes as well as a TON of other awesome goodies. If
> anything, this is what I would prefer in core.


Why would you use PHP for such low level concepts ?

I don't think this is useful, better write C for the target platform I think.
And this extension is very young and may be very buggy as it plays
with lots of crossplatform-hell concepts.
Why would we support it in Core ?

Julien.P