Re: PHP and parallelism

> > So practically speaking, it’s not worth designing around this yet.. The engine would need > massive adaptation before userland could safely talk about “parallelism.” > I agree. However, this question was raised. Perhaps there’s a larger team of developers working on a new virtual machine for PHP? I don’t know anything about that. But if that’s indeed happening, then the topic becomes relevant. As for me personally, I don’t see any practical benefit in introducing multitasking to PHP. It would require significant development effort while offering very little economic value in typical PHP use cases. Still, it’s possible that someone plans to build a PHP-Native version for a wider range of operating systems — and in that case, such a feature might indeed be needed. --- Ed