Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 08/11/07 16:23

Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Sanders Kaufman)

>> Personally - I'm a recovering Microsoftie, so this whole thing about
>> compiling and recompiling other people's applications, with other other
>> people's applications still totally blows me away.
>
> The external libraries are never recompiled (unless you do that of
> course, but usually that's not necessary). What's compiled into PHP are
> the names and references to the external functions, classes etc., so PHP
> knows where it can find the actual binary code when it's requested.
>
> It's really not that complicated.

Yeah - that's what I keep telling my grampa about his cable remote - but
he still gets goofy about the whole Video1/Video2 thing. :)

But it's really not that complicated.

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