On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Stephen Coakley <m...@stephencoakley.com> wrote: > I've been thinking about PHP optimization and distribution, and I would like > to hear some opinions on introducing a new feature for a future PHP 7 > version. Here's the concept: allow PHP opcode to be both saved after parsing > a file, and to be loaded and executed, similar to the bcompiler extension > and the APC bin functions back in the day. > Back up. What problem are you /actually/ trying to solve? OPCache does a very good job of caching the result of compilations, and it's a standard, bundled extension in common use. Is there a hit for that first load? Yes, but webservers run a very long time, and a priming step during deployment is more robust that pushing pre-compiled script databases.
> The advantages are clear: libraries and applications could be compiled to > opcode ahead of time so PHP wouldn't have to compile it again and again > (assuming you're not already using OPcache). > That's a REALLY strange assumption to make. Who runs a PHP site where performance is any kind of concern, but doesn't use OPCache? Are these hypothetical people going to fail at that, but succeed at adding an additional step to their deployment process? That seems unlikely. > A new function could be provided to parse a PHP file, but instead of > executing it, the compiled opcode would be saved to a file. It might part of > the OPcache extension if it makes sense, and could be called > opcache_compile_to_file() or something. > I'm not inherently against this as a concept, but again I have to ask: "What problem does this solve?" because it certainly creates a new one. Here's my guess: You want to be able to distribute a library or application without giving your users source code. Apart from being a very non-open thing to do, it's also pointless. Disassembling an opcode stream to PHP source code is trivial. Many folks have tried to "encrypt" such bundles, and they've all been broken, because eventually PHP has to be able to see the bytecodes. Or am I wrong, and there's a motivation I'm just not seeing? -Sara -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
