Re: PHP compiler

From: Nikola Skoric (nick-news_at_net4u.hr)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:15:31 +0000 (UTC)

Dana Mon, 08 Mar 2004 19:51:53 +0000,
J Taylor <jt@imen.org.uk> kaze:
> Nikola Skoric wrote:
>> That question is of no importance to me at this point. Now my main
>> concern is to get as much points for my crew and me, so we could get
>> better grades. *BUT* as I have great intrest in optimizing algorithms,
>> and I'm still 2 years away from my University diploma, there is a great
>> probability that I might be doing some optimizing to... and after I'm
>> finished with the project it would be a realy nice start for a PHP
>> compiler... if my University alowes me to publish it under GPL.
>
> mmm you might then be interested in compiling to some other bytecode -

Yes, I'm thinking about compiling to MSIL (.NET Framework language) because
of all the built in methods that would minimize the effort of writing the
built in functions. But, anyway, my compiler doesn't have to have more than
15 built in functions, my aim is to show to my teacher that I understand the
way compilers are dedigned, no to build a full scale compiler able to whash
the dishes...

> you could compile to native but you might also want to try compiling a
> set of functions (remembering that the entire php compiler spaning all
> function calls would take a long time (years)).

That's the reason I don't have to be able to compile all ot PHP functions.

> You might also want to look at the fact that PHP itself uses library
> calls so most of the function code will be allready written for you - in
> this case you might be faster generating C code and compiling that.

Hmmm... no, to complicated. Our course is about converting higher languages
to assembly languages, crosscompilation is not an option.

> Are
> there any PHP developers on the list?

Which list? :-)

><recall title="top ten flame wars of the past">Indeed, Tanenbaum

Is that the MINIX guy? 

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