Re: [Apc-cache] Re: [PHP-DEV] NEW PHP standalone compiler (was Re: [PHP-DEV] Here we try again)

From: Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 06:58:18 +0000
Subject: Re: [Apc-cache] Re: [PHP-DEV] NEW PHP standalone compiler (was Re: [PHP-DEV] Here we try again)
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Hello,

Michael Kimsal wrote:
> It'd be great if I could run APC and Zend Optimizer together, so people
> could run 'compiled' scripts from APC or
> Zend Encoder on one server, but I don't think that'll ever happen.  At
> least not with the current
> Zend Engine in PHP.

Why not?


> Perhaps (and I know it's been said before) what is needed is an open
> engine that could interpret and
> execute PHP separately from the Zend engine (although they've done a
> really good job at speed!)
> 
> There was someone writing PHP->C converter sometime back - did that ever
> pan out?  Any URLs for that?

I don't know, but in San Diego I heard Rasmus talking about a project by
Sascha Schumann that would generate Java bytecode from PHP scripts. I
don't know if the project went very far, but despite it seemed very
challenging, I think that with a lot of JNI classes it would feasable.

If that project is ever accomplished, I thing that basically you would
not need Zend Engine for most PHP applications. With that in mind I
could certainly why Rasmus eyes where shinning when he was talking about
that project. No wonder why Sascha was said to be Rasmus favorite PHP
developer. :-)

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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