On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:58:02AM +1000, Ben Schmidt wrote: > If PHP were compiled, not interpreted, i.e. less dynamic, there could be > some benefits, as compile-time optimisations could perhaps be built in, and > validations skipped if they were provably unnecessary. But that's not going > to happen any time soon, as far as I'm aware.
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