Call tools in parallel

[lamberttraccard]

Hi,

I think it could be a great improvement if tools could be called in parallel.

I'm happy to discuss that and work on a PR if it is of interest.

[ilvalerione]

Wha do you mean with "parallel"?

[lamberttraccard]

Call the tools concurrently and not one after the other.

[ilvalerione]

It's not easy in PHP, do you have any clue?

[lamberttraccard]

They are ways using pcntl extension but this only work in cli context. It is also possible using library like reactphp or frankenphp but the implementation will not be library agnostic. I guess will could register some sort of handler that will let the user execute the tools as he sees fit.

[ilvalerione]

I know about this issues. If you have new ideas it could be great to see a PR or move forward the discussion. The problem is in the introduction of new dependencies that is not what we want. It could be ok to make this feature optional after installing some external dependency. So if you could have some conflict you give up but the system continue to work, otherwise you can enanche the standard implementation.

[ilvalerione]

Maybe Fiber can help?

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.fibers.php

Do you have any experience with it?

[lamberttraccard]

No but I will have a look 🙂