[PHP-DEV] Implementing Threading: Some Hints (Was Re: [PHP-DEV] phpthreads - hints anyone...)

2002-08-01 Thread Wez Furlong
Hi Alan, I've missed the start of this thread on threads because our internet connection was physically down for a couple of days, but hopefully what I've said here is useful to you. It started as a couple of comments but then grew a bit long... You might find some of the code in the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Implementing Threading: Some Hints (Was Re: [PHP-DEV]phpthreads - hints anyone...)

2002-08-01 Thread Jason T. Greene
To make threading useful, you would need to somehow arrange for multiple threads to access the same underlying zval data without blocking all the threads. This just isn't possible AFAIK. Yes, this is definitely not possible without greatly modifying the engine's zval management (which would