Given the discussion this has provoked, it seems to this naive reader
like it might be a good candidate for SoC.
Just an idea...
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Has anyone tried this or know of anyone who is interested in
implementing this for the Zend Engine?
http://www.php-mag.net/magphpde/magphpde_article/psecom,id,729,nodeid,21.html
I'd settle for faster method dispatching, but JIT would be great. Can
always use the speed. :)
The idea behind PHP
Has anyone tried this or know of anyone who is interested in implementing
this for the Zend Engine?
actually yes. Gopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) made a non-public (but working) prototype
of a JIT PHP version. It was based on libjit (used by dotgnu).
I also have a good background in compilers and I w
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
This comes up once or twice a year. The machine code you compile to is
going to end up looking a lot like the current executor since you don't
have strong types to help you optimize anything. You'd still need to
pass the unions around and do runtime type juggling and all t
> The idea behind PHP from day one was that it was an environment for
> wrapping compiled code. Things that are performance critical is written
> in C/C++ and things that aren't are left in the PHP templates. Whether
> you issue an SQL query from PHP or from a compiled C program doesn't
> affect
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:19:45PM -0600, Jacob Santos wrote:
> I believe it is possible currently using the Zend Engine and working it
> either on top of APC or in place of APC. It would quite possibly help if
> I ventured further into the Zend Engine and looked at APC source.
>
> Researching
This comes up once or twice a year. The machine code you compile to is
going to end up looking a lot like the current executor since you don't
have strong types to help you optimize anything. You'd still need to
pass the unions around and do runtime type juggling and all the overhead
that comes a
Has anyone tried this or know of anyone who is interested in
implementing this for the Zend Engine? I tried searching the archives
and didn't find anything on this topic. (Would Google help? No, only
turns up some commercial PHP compiler for PHP 4.x.
I believe it is possible currently using th
