I already use code that does batch processing in the background (no browser window used) in any hosting environment. The question is would something like this be useful to the Drupal community; if yes how can one override Drupal's batch operations to use my processor.
If your wondering I use my async workers in Imageinfo Cache and Boost. Imageinfo Cache has a better implementation then the one in Boost. I was thinking this could be it's own project as I find being able to do background processing very useful. So if your looking at how it's done, Imageinfo Cache has a fairly clean implementation. The one in boost is multi process but it's not clean so I wouldn't use it as the base. Making this multi process isn't that hard to do.
Thoughts?
