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I've never heard of languages being synchronous or asynchronous before. It looks like PHP ships with asynchronous DB APIs.
by anonymoushn 13y ago
I've never heard of languages being synchronous or asynchronous before. It looks like PHP ships with asynchronous DB APIs.
- k3n 13y agoOk, poor example; just consider that it's single-threaded. Pretty much the only threading support is by way of a young PECL extension called pthreads[1], which is still experimental and dangerous. Otherwise, you can use the PCTL extension[2], if you don't mind compiling PHP yourself (and if you're not on Windows, where it's not supported). 1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pthreads.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pthreads.php 2. http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcntl.installation.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcntl.installation.php