Posted by Brian on 03/16/05 05:30

To understand the *'s just google for c pointer tutorial, you're
likely to find alot of helpful material.


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:37:26 -0500, Jason Barnett
<jason.barnett@telesuite.com> wrote:
> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > Jason Barnett wrote:
> >
> >> Jay Blanchard wrote:
> ...
> > In the end you are probably much better off learning a bit of C or C++
> > and writing your own PHP extensions than hoping that someone will make a
> > compiler that will magically speed everything up. PHP was designed
> > specifically with this in mind. The idea is to keep things that don't
> ...
> > better performance than any "PHP Compiler" ever will. And it really
> > isn't that hard to write a PHP extension.
> >
> > -Rasmus
>
> I actually looked into building my own extension before. I saw some of
> the docs from the talks.php.net site and most of it made sense to me.
> So I agree that the PHP <-> extensions interface is simple enough for a
> poor slob like myself to understand.
>
> Can you (or anyone else for that matter) give me a book recommendation
> that explains C coding to someone with intermediate PHP skills?
>
> I already have George Schlossnagle's book and it's great (it taught me a
> lot of what I know about the source), but it assumes a level of
> proficiency in C that I just don't have.
>
> I know that you have to allocate memory for variables, you have strict
> types (although I'm vaguely familiar with a zval), but some things like
> all of those **'s I see in the source code just don't make sense to me.
> Recommendations, anyone?
>
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