async VS parallel

I really wanna get into writing more asynchronous PHP but having to switch to a whole different web server and execution mode is a major stumbling block. The only library (that I know of) that allows asynchronous code in traditional PHP environment is this one by Spatie.

You can leverage https://github.com/amphp/parallel or https://github.com/spatie/async without changing the app much.

To handle this problem i've used "https://github.com/halaxa/json-machine" to decrease the memory usage and "https://github.com/spatie/async" to decrease the take taken for the "update process" to complete

It drove me crazy too, until I needed to use Puppeteer which requires you to write async/await (there are Puppeteer implementations in other languages, but they all seem to make compromises I didn't want). Generally speaking, async/await allows you to write code that looks and feels serial. Perhaps try using one of the async libraries for PHP to wrap your mind around the concept of async/await (like https://github.com/spatie/async)

Try using spatie's async package and run a chunk of 10 tests in each batch, if that works it might cut your waiting time by quite a lot.

Spatie

You can leverage https://github.com/amphp/parallel or https://github.com/spatie/async without changing the app much.

it doesn't use fork to dispatch not anymore I suppose, when I last tried it that was the case. upon checking the code https://github.com/amphp/parallel/blob/master/lib/Worker/DefaultWorkerFactory.php they are now checking for various extensions like parallel or pthread and then defaulting to generators. so it uses generators now.

amphp (& amphp parallel ?)