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 Posted by Michael Fesser on 09/18/07 17:10 
..oO(Jerry Stuckle) 
 
>Nope, Lammi is correct.  PHP code is not compiled, it is parsed.  It may  
>  or may not be stored as byte code. 
 
The parser is just a part of the entire process. 
 
>Not even Zend claims PHP is compiled. 
 
| [...] The Web Server Disk retrieves the code for the PHP-based web  
| page and sends the PHP code to the Run-time Compiler. (3). The Zend 
| Engine Run-time Compiler creates an compiled representation of the 
| script, which is passed on to the Zend Engine Executor. [...] 
 
(from <http://www.zend.com/zend/technology.php>) 
 
There's even the special function __halt_compiler(). 
 
Micha
 
  
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