Re: PHP compiler

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:50, Jeremy S. Johnstone wrote: > 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 Web: http://www.nobolt.com

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