RE: [PHP] Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading?
| From: | Daevid Vincent | Date: | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:59:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading? | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> And what you seem to be missing is that making PHP userspace
> threaded is
> such a major change to the underlying code base and
> architecture that it
> would essentially be a total and complete rewrite, and would require
> people to rewrite large portions of their existing PHP userspace code.
>
> So it's either you adjust your code to fit the paradigm that PHP is
> built for from the ground up, or the entire rest of the world adjusts
> its code to fit the paradigm that you think you want to have.
Very well said.
Isn't this only a factor for code that actually USES the threads though?
Wouldn't all code just keep working the same as always if no threads are
introduced in any part of it (which by default would be all existing code
to date?
-Daevid.