Re: Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading?

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Teus Benschop <teusjannette@gmail.com> wrote: > When looking at PHP as used in enterprise class applications, we can see > the following happening. Let imagine that we have a site that gets a > 1000 requests per second. That seems to be a good candidate for > threading so as to be able to handle the 1000 requests per second. The > site runs PHP and Apache. Well, what happens? Each request coming in is > handed of to a separate instance of Apache. Thus the site would be able > to process many requests simultaneously. It looks as if parallel > computing is taking place here, which looks much like threading. Even > though PHP itself does not know about threads, and does not need to, I > think, the whole process of handling the 1000 requests per second uses > parallel computing. There are no performance bottle-necks here. Teus. > # of requests / second can be solved by load balancers/clusters. What about the multiple answers for a simple request per user as in my example? How you would solve that if not by threading? Amazon has about 30 million products and they have filters similar to what I mentioned. But when clicking on one of the I18n site at the bottom, you're taken to another server, which looks like it uses a different DB back end (I could be wrong) and you don't get instant translation of the category you're looking at. Their response time is about 3 seconds on my 10mbs (not cable) download. As for what programming language they use...