Re: PHP True Async RFC - Stage 2

From: Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:42:44 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP True Async RFC - Stage 2
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>  Nitpick to make sure we're talking about the same thing: What does
"Separate execution context" mean here?  Because a keyword whose
description includes "and" is always a yellow flag at least.
>

At the language abstraction level, we can say that spawn performs a single
operation: it creates an execution context. In this case, the *execution
context* is a low-level term that refers to the combination of processor
register states and the call stack (as well as the state of the Zend
engine).


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