FYI: PHP/threads

I've been playing around with the (not new) idea of introducing threads into PHP userland (maybe something to think about havin in PHP6?). What came out of it is available at [1], offering an object oriented API (in comparison to PECL/threads [2]). Threads would quite likely come in handy in the following situations: - GTK-PHP thin network client application "polling" a socket for events (e.g., IRC client) - Multiple simultaneous connections to slow services (for instance, think of whois + check multiple domain names). Both of these examples could be realized using fork() or socket_select(), though the first is not portable and the latter produces unnecessary overhead. Maybe someone here would like to pick up on this idea or give some directions to what would have to be done to make this actually work dependably. I'm experiencing the same issues as with PECL/threads - variable "confusion" (local function arguments with same names in two threads affect each other), Engine unstability (Warning: ... in ... on line -18182899), but could get a couple of samples[3] to work quite well. Maybe the userland API could be adopted by PECL/threads? Is anyone still working at this or was development given up? 1] http://sitten-polizei.de/php/threads-0.1alpha.tar.gz 2] http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/pear/PECL/threads 3] http://sitten-polizei.de/php/threads/tests/?file=mythread.php http://sitten-polizei.de/php/threads/tests/?file=timer.php http://sitten-polizei.de/php/threads/tests/?file=simple.php http://sitten-polizei.de/php/threads/tests/?file=calendar.php etc. - Timm

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