PHP compiler

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?

Not to discourage you or anything, but I doubt that would be a very good
idea. Because of the nature of PHP (being loosely typed and highly
dynamic), I think you would be disappointed with the speed result -- it
wouldn't be very much faster than the current PHP interpreter.

But then again, for distributing binary-only applications it would
perhaps be a good idea.

Best regards,

Per Lundberg / Capio ApS
Phone: +46-18-4186040
Fax: +46-18-4186049
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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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I began work on that project. It's called PASM

http://www.coggeshall.org/projects/

John

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
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Checkout binaryphp at sourceforge... It's quite cool really...

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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