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edmondx

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    Of all the ways to program with async, I like transparent asynchrony the most. Even though it may seem implicit, it turns out to be the most convenient.

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    Comment #48009035

    Great article. I like how it presents a realistic view without hype, showing both the benefits and the tradeoffs.

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    Comment #47873061

    Swoole Compiler v4 introduces a native AOT (Ahead-of-Time) compiler that radically changes the landscape. The AOT compiler abandons traditional PHP interpretation and allows code t…

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    > No actually it's a joy to have no multithreading. To build CPU-bound applications in PHP, you have to install a bunch of packages, rely on Redis, and try to approximate what Pyth…

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    Comment #47815333

    It seems like you’re talking about something similar: https://true-async.github.io/en/docs/components/thread-pool.... I’ve also wanted parallelism in PHP for a long time. Especiall…

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    I also feel a shift in what I spend my time on. Sometimes I just don’t feel like thinking about complex things. But is that really a problem? If you’re too lazy to do something, ma…

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    Comment #47792942

    Nice to see more native C extensions pushing performance boundaries in PHP. Writing grep as an extension rather than shelling out or using preg_match for large file scanning makes …

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    > PHP SDK is in the works and should be out by end of day Glad to hear that! Thank you!

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    Clean approach. We deal with similar memory lifecycle problems in a PHP async extension (C, libuv-based reactor). Coroutine stacks and their associated state need deterministic cle…

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    Great timing with this — the LocalStack auth token change broke a lot of CI pipelines. Nice to see a Rust-based alternative with that kind of startup time (~500ms, 10 MiB idle). Th…

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    Sounds very promising. Although right now I’m working on a project together with MLIR.

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    I’m afraid the balance of open source wasn’t broken today. It happened quite a long time ago. It’s just not something people usually talk about. Companies have been using open sour…

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    I’m working on https://github.com/true-async/php-async and planning to bring it to a production-ready state. It would be great to build a fast HTTP server.