Hi Pedro,
Most PHP IO can be set as non-blocking (well, the appropriate readers, 
writers, polls, etc). At a point this can become extension specific, but 
they're all writen in C (some in C++) using mainstream counterparts, so you 
generaly have the same options available.


On Saturday, December 29, 2012 1:11:24 AM UTC-8, Pedro Teixeira wrote:
>
> PHP does I/O in a blocking way. 
> Using these php functions in node will block the event loop, limiting the 
> responsiveness and scalability of your app.
>
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> Pedro
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> On Saturday, 29 de December de 2012 at 06:35, JSON wrote:
>
> But I also agree that creating full routines using php within javascript 
> would be a pointless and even wasteful to a degree. The examples where 
> meant to illustrate capabilities, not to suggest how it should be used.
>
> On Friday, December 28, 2012 10:13:01 PM UTC-8, mscdex wrote:
>
> Seems to me that if you're going through all of this trouble just for 
> "the familiarity of the PHP platform," then you should just use PHP in 
> the first place because doing all this synchronous stuff pretty much 
> makes this usage of node pointless. 
>
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