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Do compiled PHP scripts exist?

I am wondering if anyone has used or read about PHP scripts compiled as a .so extension for Apache... Thing is I think I remember reading about it somewhere but dont know if such a thing exists.

This looks promising, but incomplete and abandoned: http://phpcompiler.org/

Im interested because i think it could improve performance... Perhaps someone could point out a framework or apache extension that does this.

Thanks!!

Solution

  • They do exist. There's HipHop Compiler for PHP by Facebook.
    I don't know if it works with Apache, though.
    You may want to take a look: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358
    Github repository: http://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php