Why every developer should transform factory (#300)
Concurrency Patterns in PHP
PHP's traditional request-per-process model is simple but limiting. Modern PHP offers several concurrency approaches.
Fork-Based Parallelism
Using pcntl_fork(), a parent process creates child processes that inherit
its full state via OS copy-on-write:
$futures = [];
foreach ($chunks as $chunk) {
$futures[] = run(function () use ($chunk) {
return processChunk($chunk);
});
}
$results = array_map(fn ($f) => $f->value(), $futures);
Advantages: Full state inheritance, true parallelism, no serialization overhead for captured variables.
Challenges: Connection management (database, Redis, HTTP clients must be reset in child processes), memory overhead per process.
Async I/O
For I/O-bound workloads, async libraries like ReactPHP or AMPHP multiplex operations on a single thread:
$promises = [];
foreach ($urls as $url) {
$promises[] = $httpClient->request('GET', $url);
}
$responses = await(all($promises));
Advantages: Low memory footprint, excellent for HTTP calls and database queries.
Challenges: Callback complexity, limited CPU parallelism, ecosystem compatibility.
Choosing the Right Model
| Workload | Best Approach | |----------|--------------| | CPU-bound computation | Fork (pcntl) | | Many HTTP API calls | Async I/O | | Mixed CPU + I/O | Fork with async per child | | Real-time streaming | Event loop (ReactPHP) |
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