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As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy (or asynchronous) tasks. For a long while if you wanted to parallelize long tasks you had to resort to forking through pcntl_fork which had its own issues, and you couldn't really handle the results of those tasks properly, etc.
As such, a habit has kind of developed where we go straight for more intricate solutions such as queuing (which just delays your task if anything), React PHP, or even using another language altogether. But PHP can do threading, and more importantly it's a lot easier than you probably think.
In this article I'm going to dive into the pthreads extension (short for POSIX Threads). It has been around for a while (since 2012) but I feel like too many people forget it exists or assume it is going to be painful to use – mostly because the official documentation is rather slim about it.
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Wednesday November 25 2015, @02:52PM
Hahaha perfect! I seen shit like that too. You would not even believe the piles of turds I stepped int hat were in PHP. I guess I feel vindicated that I reach for python when doing any sort of threaded work. But a lot of code here is in PHP, and IF I have to do use parrelism, I would like to continue with PHP.