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 # Fast Forward Fork
 
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+  <img src="docs/_static/mascot-banner.png" alt="Dash coordinating parallel worker consoles and collecting their results" width="840">
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+
 A PHP 8.3+ library for orchestrating forked workers with typed signals, immutable worker groups,
 captured worker output, and PSR-3 logging.
 
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