Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:3787 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30640 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2003 17:02:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO walkabout.org) (65.114.110.10) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 2003 17:02:14 -0000 Received: from [198.77.50.68] (HELO 68-50.dialup.txbi.net) by walkabout.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1) with ESMTP id 3864353; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:02:13 -0400 To: "Jeremy S. Johnstone" Cc: PHP Internals In-Reply-To: <00ae01c35c21$c66af3c0$6521a8c0@RESIDENT> References: <00ae01c35c21$c66af3c0$6521a8c0@RESIDENT> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-11) Date: 06 Aug 2003 13:02:22 -0400 Message-ID: <1060189345.13352.0.camel@coogle.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP compiler From: john@coggeshall.org (John Coggeshall) I began work on that project. It's called PASM http://www.coggeshall.org/projects/ John On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 09:50, Jeremy S. Johnstone wrote: > After seeing the conversation on the PHP archive idea (having a PHP > equivalent of a jar file), it reminded me of an idea I had a long time > ago. Has anyone ever thought of writing a PHP compiler which would > compile a PHP script into native machine code? If you have thought of > it, what stopped you from building it? I would be highly interested in > joining a team which wanted to push the limits of PHP by doing something > like this. I think this is the next logical step in the "PHP for > anything and everything" goal. > > Jeremy -- -~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~- John Coggeshall http://www.coggeshall.org/ john at coggeshall dot org The PHP Developer's Handbook The definitive PHP5 developer's guide http://www.php-handbook.com/ -~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~-