FWIW, I can confirm that PHP using forking and "daemon" CLI classes for
async processing works like a charm. We've written a "KISS" async
mechanism that's pretty robust and works perfectly even to the tune of
several million tx's per day processed. And if you do the async handling
right it easily scales by simply adding more processors/hardware as load
demands.
Just a FWIW...
-----Original Message-----
From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:55 PM
To: Bart de Boer; internals@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Multithreading
You don't need threads, you can use fork() for that. On *nix systems it
is very fast, nearly as fast as threads and much safer to boot. And you
can already do forking in PHP via PCNTL extension's pcntl_fork()
function.
Ilia