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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:07:20 +0600
Reply-To: Simeon Koptelov <xi@newmail.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP compiler
From: xi@newmail.ru (Simeon Koptelov)

Hello Jeremy,

Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 7:50:57 PM, you wrote:

JSJ> After seeing the conversation on the PHP archive idea (having a PHP
JSJ> equivalent of a jar file), it reminded me of an idea I had a long time
JSJ> ago. Has anyone ever thought of writing a PHP compiler which would
JSJ> compile a PHP script into native machine code? If you have thought of
JSJ> it, what stopped you from building it? I would be highly interested in
JSJ> joining a team which wanted to push the limits of PHP by doing something
JSJ> like this. I think this is the next logical step in the "PHP for
JSJ> anything and everything" goal.

There are pruducts such as Zend Accelerator or Turck MMCache. Did you
mean that type of compiling?

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 Simeon                            mailto:xi@newmail.ru