Re: NEW PHP standalone compiler (was Re: [PHP-DEV] Herewe try again)

From: Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:42:12 +0000
Subject: Re: NEW PHP standalone compiler (was Re: [PHP-DEV] Herewe try again)
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On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:10, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> "Stig S. Bakken" wrote:
> > > > Also, someone may be able to reverse the PHP code to C and create an exe
> > > > with it (like Perl) . And last, but maybe the future: Web Services with
> > > > SOAP?
> > >
> > > It should be not be that hard. There are Java bytecode to C converters,
> > > it should not be hard to make Zend bytecode to C conversion.
> > 
> > Wishful thinking? :-)
> > 
> > Unless I'm mistaken, Java doesn't have eval.  Any language with eval
> > needs a runtime environment when executing, even if the rest of the code
> > is converted to C.
> 
> I am not expert in Java (actually I don't program in Java - MetaL
> generates it for me if I ever need it), but I suppose that what eval
> does is what java.lang.Compiler class is for.

From what I can see it's related, but I don't think the language design
of Zend/PHP is quite up to C generation, at least not yet.  I would like
nothing more than being proven wrong (by code) though.

 - Stig

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