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by dotborg2 5092 days ago
Do PHP engineers even know what multithreading is?

ps. I don't mean crontab

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Do you even know how many days/weeks/months I've seen engineers waste on tracking down threading issues?

ps. I don't mean sewing shirts.

PHP programs are indirectly affected by those issues anyway
I've technically made $millions in transactions on web sites built with PHP, and I've never had to confront multi-threading.
I would suggest that serving webpages falls into the set of embarrassingly parallel problems. The solution is to saturate your cpu running multiple instances.