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| • | PHP
will never be as fast as C/C++ |
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| – | Interpreted
language |
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| – | Will
always be slower than compiled |
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| – | Accelerators
only help a little |
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| • | What
if we could compile PHP to C? |
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| – | Utilize
gcc’s 18 years of optimizations |
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| – | Write
opcodes out as ANSI C and |
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| invoke
gcc |
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| – | Emit
each page as a shared object |
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| • | Even
better: a JIT compiler for PHP? |
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