Re: Will PHP6 have threads (yet)?

Daevid Vincent wrote: > It would be fantastic if PHP 6 was multi-threaded so you could spin threads > to do simultaneous tasks. Is there any plans for this? I think that this was last dicussed in December http://www.zend.com/zend/week/week266.php#Heading5, the conclusion was no. For simultaneous tasks you can use process control via pcntl_fork(). > > It would also be great if you could exec() or system() a program to run > without blocking on a return. Sometimes I just want some other task to > happen independantly without waiting (for example, call a program that *IS* > threaded). This isn't multithreading, this is using a background process. You can do this using system() or exec() with the standard shell backgrounding &. I assume you have to do it differently in windows. You could also try pcntl_exec(). > > Many other languages including JAVA, Perl, Python and Ruby are all > multi-threaded, and it's a continuing source of frustration that PHP isn't. > Different tools are for different jobs. If you are trying to write a listen server that creates threads to handle incoming requests or something similar, I'd recomend not using PHP. For a webpage, threads typically aren't required. David Tulloh