Does PHP really not support asynchronous calls natively?

• React

  40 8,815 3.9 PHP

  Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP.

  

So I came to the conclusion that what PHP misses right now to have a real async native support is the event loop, but the rest is present in the language. I never used async PHP but I checked the Swoole library and the tool requires a specific pecl extension (`swoole`). On the other hand, for ReactPHP no extension is necessary: their event loop seems to run on native PHP.

• event-loop

  4 1,194 5.3 PHP

  ReactPHP's core reactor event loop that libraries can use for evented I/O.

  

It can run without an extension, but for best performance, one of libuv, libev or libevent should be installed to accelerate performance, otherwise it uses stream_select() which doesn't require an extension but has worse performance. See https://github.com/reactphp/event-loop#loop-implementations

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