PHC - php compiler
 

Hi folks,

i just discovered this and i'm kind of excited about it

http://www.phpcompiler.org

it says that it does exactly what i have been looking for since February, namely compiling php and apparently by writing it into c++ and then linking it against the php library or something (not quite sure though)

if this turns out to work then it'll be really a big thing at least for me! :)

Did anybody give this a try ?

in the last month i've tried almost everything that says it can "compile" php somehow from the zend guard to the miserable bcompiler , right now i'm hacking around with the APC to see if can extract a bytecode script that may run as a normal script would from the commman-line...you name it..

cheers

Sounds a lot like HipHop:

https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/

Out of curiosity have you tried that out?

Sorry for this late reply...

actually i've tried out hiphop but i found it to be convoluted and unstable , actually the developers state that hiphop only runs on a centOS/Fedora system (at least for now)

besides the documentation/configuration looks a mess ...