Re: Threading & PHP

php.net/pcntl cvs.php.net/cvs.php/pecl/threads On Saturday 24 January 2004 03:24 pm, Galen wrote: > Hi, > > This may be completely crazy, but let me tell you what I want to do: > thread PHP. > > My server is a dual-processor 2 GHz machine, and it's not very loaded. > I have a few tasks that are huge and lengthy and would benefit from > being placed in their own "thread" if you will. This would serve to > either accelerate the process by splitting it among CPUs or allow the > process to continue "in the background" for a few seconds after all > pages have been loaded. > > There are two areas where I'd use this: > 1) To accelerate results in a relevancy ranking/fuzzy matching > algorithm I have created, and although I've optimized the heck out of > it, it can be slow when hundreds of thousands of items are thrown at > it. It would be easy to split the array in half and run the algorithm > on both halves, which would almost half processing time for returning > results. > > 2) With image processing. When a user uploads an image to a few of my > pages, the image is processed, re-compressed, and filed in the database > or a file system. This can take several seconds, and I'd prefer that > the user doesn't have to wait for the process to complete. > > How might I be able to make some PHP code run as a "thread" that would > serve these purposes? > > -Galen -- Evan Nemerson evan@coeus-group.com http://coeusgroup.com/en