#1053 - Asynchronous processing of blocks

By Chris Graham
Added 24th Feb 2013, 1:31 PM
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Identifier	#1053
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Asynchronous processing of blocks
Status	Closed (rejected)
Tags	Type: Performance (custom)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	core
Description	Blocks are theoretically independent. So we could try to use multi-core to process them in parallel for very fast response times: https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads#readme http://wezfurlong.org/blog/2005/may/guru-multiplexing/
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By Guest posted 14th Mar 2013, 11:37 AM

Some work on asynchronous block processing may be going into the PHP RunKit extensions. However I am not yet certain how shared memory is handled, if memory is shared in the normal way. It could be problematic if it is not automatic.
Naively trying to do stuff in parallel, but having separate runtime caches and execution contexts in each thread, could be a bad idea.

Summary: This tracker issue is very much an unknown at this point.

By Guest posted 3rd Jan 2015, 3:13 PM

More trouble than its worth. The self-learning cache has already made performance great, we'd be doing enormous bookkeeping (lots of extra code) for a really tiny gain. The extra code could easily cause more resource usage than that gain.