Alternative interpreters??

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Eric Zuidweg
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Alternative interpreters??

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Coming from the J2EE world, i am quite new to PHP. I was wondering if there was an alternative to the Zend interpreter that you run into on Windows and some Linux versions.

The only thing i could find was the (commercial) Roadsend compiler...

Greetz,

Eric
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I think you need to set up apache + php on your computer then run it in a browser through

http://localhost/foo.php
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Post by Eric Zuidweg »

Understood. I've got all that working. But the PHP engine is always from the Zend company. Are ther other people that build an alternative engine?

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Apart from ZendEngine(2) there aren't much other targets. There is Phalanger which generates code for dotnet.


If you're looking for an opcode cache you could look at APC.
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timvw wrote:Apart from ZendEngine(2) there aren't much other targets. There is Phalanger which generates code for dotnet.


If you're looking for an opcode cache you could look at APC.
Hey, Phlanger is pretty awsome. Being Open Source, doesn't it render the Roadsend Compiler obsolete? Then again, you'd need the .NET architechture...Still, awsome way to make PHP executables if you ask me...
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