Re: how does the PHP interpreter work?

From: Phil Roberts (phil.roberts_at_googlemail.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:08:44 -0500

"Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> emerged reluctantly from
the curtain and staggered drunkenly up to the mic. In a cracked
and slurred voice he muttered:

> This is crap. A web server like Apache can run multiple threads
> at the same time, and as each HTTP request comes in it is handed
> over to the first available thread. It is therefore possible to
> have multiple instances of PHP being executed at the same time
> as each instance is within its own thread. having the ability to
> allow multiple concurrent threads is a function of the web
> server, not PHP.
>

The question was in relation to the fetching of remote XML data
feeds though. In which case PHP will not render the data until it
has been fetched. Network lag, not interpreter lag. Sorry for any
confusion. 

-- 
Phil Roberts | Without me its just aweso. | http://www.flatnet.net/
   "Mankind differs from the animals only by a little,
    and most people throw that away."
        - Confucious

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