Brent • 4/12/2021

Fibers with a grain of salt

This article discusses the introduction of fibers in PHP 8.1, a low-level concurrency feature for managing parallel execution. It explains the concept of asynchronous HTTP requests, contrasts synchronous vs. parallel processing, and clarifies that fibers are 'green threads' designed as a foundational API for building higher-level abstractions rather than for direct use in most application code.

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#http requests #asynchronous programming #concurrency