OT - C programming

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Jason Barnett wrote: > >> Jay Blanchard wrote: ... > In the end you are probably much better off learning a bit of C or C++ > and writing your own PHP extensions than hoping that someone will make a > compiler that will magically speed everything up. PHP was designed > specifically with this in mind. The idea is to keep things that don't ... > better performance than any "PHP Compiler" ever will. And it really > isn't that hard to write a PHP extension. > > -Rasmus I actually looked into building my own extension before. I saw some of the docs from the talks.php.net site and most of it made sense to me. So I agree that the PHP <-> extensions interface is simple enough for a poor slob like myself to understand. Can you (or anyone else for that matter) give me a book recommendation that explains C coding to someone with intermediate PHP skills? I already have George Schlossnagle's book and it's great (it taught me a lot of what I know about the source), but it assumes a level of proficiency in C that I just don't have. I know that you have to allocate memory for variables, you have strict types (although I'm vaguely familiar with a zval), but some things like all of those **'s I see in the source code just don't make sense to me. Recommendations, anyone? -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins

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