On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Randolf Richardson wrote:
> >>In dealing with web applications and frontends to database or
> >>even just a dynamic web site PHP has every bit the power and ability that
> >>Java does and the development time is way down.
> >
> > Uh, how about threads. I know that you don't need them much but it sure
> > would be nice to be able to do background processing.
> [sNip]
>
> PHP doesn't support threads? I've always thought of Forking as
> overkill where threads are light and elegant.
True on some platforms (Windows, Solaris) untrue on others (Linux,
possibly BSD) where threads are not much lighter than processes.
PHP doesn't have thread support.