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gizzlon on Oct 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: RailwayJS

For example, one can send heavy computations to background processes and execute other code while waiting for the result

That you can actually do in PHP, for example with gearman:

http://docs.php.net/manual/en/gearman.examples-reverse-bg.ph...

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