rework to support multiple concurrent instances #1
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Motivation and goals
See nachoparker/server#1
Changes
This PR is a PoC which allows multiple concurrent executions of the preview generator in order to speed up the process by using more cores.
Ideally we would use a PHP native method for creating theads but this does not have good distribution support yet (see next section).
Results
See nachoparker/server#1 for details
Future work
pthreadsorparallelonce there are ZTS PHP packages available (link link) instead of relying on an external script that launches several processes in parallel.Signed-off-by: nachoparker [email protected]