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diff --git a/documentation/install.html b/documentation/install.html index d1d1cb0..a498acb 100644 --- a/documentation/install.html +++ b/documentation/install.html @@ -15,39 +15,6 @@ installation instructions and include other platforms as well. </p> -<h2 id="limitations">Limitations</h2> -<p> - At this moment, PHP-CPP only supports single-threaded PHP installations. - Web servers come in a number forms: there are the ones that handle each - page request in different process, and the ones that handle each page request - in the same process, but in a different thread. If you're using such a - multi-threaded PHP installation, you can not use the PHP-CPP library. Most - installations are single-threaded however, so this should not be a show stopper. -</p> -<p> - Are you not sure whether you have a single-threaded or multi-threaded PHP - environment? Just try to compile the PHP-CPP library, if you see a zillion - errors, you can be pretty sure that this is because of your installation - is multi-threaded. -</p> -<p> - The reason why we've chosen not to support multi-threaded PHP installations - lies in the fact that internally the Zend engine uses a very odd system - to ensure thread safety. Essentially, they pass an additional parameter to - each and every function call that holds a pointer-to-a-pointer with thread - information that you can access with specific C macro's, and that you have - to pass on to every other function call that you make. This makes life for - extension writers much harder than is necessary - and is in total conflict - with the core principle of the PHP-CPP library: to make life easy. -</p> -<p> - However, if there is demand for, we will add support for multi-threaded PHP - installations, and hopefully we can even keep the same simple C++ API as we - have now. -</p> - - - <h2 id="download">Download</h2> <p> Installation begins with downloading the source code. You can either |