Hi!
I know multi-threading is an enormous source of bugs, but I think it does offer a good support for large-scale apps considering the background processes and event-driven programming, and also allowing
Multithreading does not fit well in the set of assumptions PHP engine is built on (though as for PHP language itself, I don't think there are assumptions that contradict threads) so it would be quite hard to do it on existing engine. It might be easier to do on some non-standard implementations, but I wouldn't hold my breast about standard engine - unless somebody comes forward and surprises us.
the apps to be self-content with no needs and no dependency of external daemons like cron.
I'm not sure how cron enters here but if what you need is scheduling capabilities then there are products implementing this, e.g. in Zend Platform.
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