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A nice introduction to asynchronous multitasking in PHP using generators and coroutines.

Les multitâches sont les personnes les moins efficaces. C'est le résultat de plusieurs expériences menées par le professeur Clifford Nass du département de psychologie de l'Université de Standford. Gérer en même temps un flux twitter, un flux facebook, répondre à quatre emails tout en lisant un article ou un regardant une vidéo, peut entraîner de graves troubles sur le plan cognitif.

multitask allows [WWW] Python programs to use [WWW] generators (aka coroutines) to perform cooperative multitasking and asynchronous I/O. Applications written using multitask consist of a set of cooperating tasks that yield to a shared task manager whenever they perform a (potentially) blocking operation, such as I/O on a socket or getting data from a queue. The task manager temporarily suspends the task (allowing other tasks to run in the meantime) and then restarts it when the blocking operation is complete. Such an approach is suitable for applications that would otherwise have to use select() and/or multiple threads to achieve concurrency. multitask is [WWW] free software, distributed under the [WWW] MIT license.

Most people may THINK they're good at multitasking... but researchers have proven otherwise