RE: [PHP4BETA] compiler ?

Are this 3 seperate products? Or is it a bundle? Thanks for clearing it up, btw ;) Sander > At 04:10 31/07/99 , Sander Pilon 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? > > Could be your rusty memory, could be bad phrasing on my part. > > There are going to be several modules, that happily interact with each > other (after we taught them to:), but are technically separate. > > One is the script->file compiler. What it does is compile scripts into > binary representation that's platform independent, and is smart enough to > load them and execute them too. There's little performance gain involved > in using it - unless you have very complex scripts that take a > long time to > compile each time, and the binary loader would do the job faster. > > Then there's the optimizer - which takes an input stream of Zend > intermediate code, and outputs a better stream. This has considerable > speed up in it, often 2x-3x. It can be coupled with the script->file > compiler, i.e., you could compile a script, optimize it, and save it to a > binary file - so that every time you load it afterwards, it's already > compiled and optimized. > > Finally, there's the persistent registry, that saves compiled > representations of your script in memory. This too happily > interacts with > the optimizer (i.e., if you have the optimizer loaded, the script will be > compiled once, optimized, and the optimized representation will > be saved in > memory). > > All in all, products-wise, I think the optimizer will be integrated with > both the script->file compiler and the persistent registry, the > script->file compiler being aimed at people who wish to commercially > distribute their scripts, and the persistent registry and very very very > very busy sites - both address commercial companies, as you can tell (if > there'll be cases where there are very busy non commercial sites, we'd > happily license it to them for free). > > Zeev > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ > For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il > > > -- > PHP 4 Beta >