I really like this idea, non-blocking IO via asynchronous operations in
PHP would be amazing.
I am running into an issue right now where I want to listen to several
different socket streams for data. One example of this would be:
Open socket AWait for dataClose socket AOpen socket BWait for dataClose
socket B
This would be so much easier if I could just listen on both in a non-IO
blocking fashion. I would find this immensely useful.
~Judah
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 8:59 pm, Aran Reeks <cdtre...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Internals,
Since the start of PHP 7, we've seen some amazing performance
improvement
version by version as a result of core updates.
Now some of the biggest wins have been implemented (with JIT due for
PHP
8), I'd personally love to see support for Async / Await introduced in
PHP's as a core language feature too.
Being able to perform tasks in parallel such as reading or writing to
DB,
cache, queues... Would be a massive advantage and the performance
gains
from it could be really exciting!
Looking at how Hack has implemented support, this seems like it could
be a
great start for a RFC, what does everyone else think?
Here's a link to Hack's implementation for reference:
<https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/asynchronous-operations/some-basics>
Thoughts welcome from everyone.
Cheers,
Aran
