I would have thought the big thing against a compiler which produced native
machine code is that sooner or later differences between Operating Systems
and the library functions they provide would mean that the language would
no longer be machine independent. >Which for me (and a lot of other
developers) is one of the key features of PHP.
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Tel: 0141 951 3481
Email: rblack@datavisibility.co.uk
"Jeremy S.
Johnstone" To: <internals@lists.php.net>
<jsjohnst@rockets cc:
ervers.net> Subject: [PHP-DEV] PHP compiler
06/08/2003 14:50
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
