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Parallel Computing

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:26 pm
by laviavigdor
The server I'm using has Intel's Xeon dual processors.

Can I assign different tasks to different processors?

Does PHP deal with parallel computing?

Lavi.

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:33 pm
by josh
I'm pretty sure you don't have to worry about that, it is handled by something farther down the line, like apache or the OS itself

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:40 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I agree... it would make little sense to load each proccessor individually.... That just leads to more possiblity to have a poor load average on one proccessor. Your OS can deal with this.... you've still got the same overall proccessing power.

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:24 pm
by m3mn0n
Yep... That sort of thing is outside the scope of PHP development.

The language out-of-the-box doesn't deal with that sort of thing at all, though PHP-GTK might venture into that sort of territory.