RE: [PHP4BETA] compiler ?

At 04:10 AM 7/31/99 +0200, you wrote: >> >> Several features - it's going to be a fairly feature rich product. Speed >> isn't one of the features - there's no speed improvements involved in the >> entire idea of the script->file compiler. >> > >Is it my rusty memory, or is this contradictive with previous statements? > >Zeev, 1999-05-23: >"For those of you who have looked at the mandelbrot generator when the site >was still running PHP 3.0, you might want to take a look at it now. You'd >find it a bit faster (it's still just a P100, and it's still not running >the optimizer, so you'd still notice it takes some time to run, but it's >quite a few times quicker than PHP 3.0)" > >Zeev, 1999-01-09: >"The optimizing compiler makes this code scream even more, but >frankly, unless you have a real busy site, you don't need it." > >So, what'll it be? Faster, or not? I dunno, maybe Im just understanding this wrong. Use of the script-file compiler may result in speed enhancement, but speed improvements were not involved in *_the entire idea_* of it. The idea of it is to render one's code proprietary (unreadable to end-users). This has nothing to do with the *optimizing* compiler, which is not the same as the script->file compiler. Is my understanding of it... foo->bar? Mike