Patterns for PHP multi processes?

Question

Which design pattern exist to realize the execution of some PHP processes and the collection of the results in one PHP process?

Background:
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Answer 1

Using web or CLI?

If you use web, you could intergrate that part in Quercus Then you could use the advantages of JAVA multithreading.

I don't actually know how reliable Quercus is though. I'd also suggest using a kind of message queue and refactoring the code, so it doesn't need the scope.

Maybe you could rebuild the code to a Map/Reduce pattern. You then can run the PHP code in Hadoop Then you can cluster the processing through a couple of machines.

I don't know if it's useful, but I came across another project, called Gearman. It's also used to cluster PHP processes. I guess you can combine that with a reduce script as well, if Hadoop is not the way you want to go.