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[Jeff Slutz]

I've no personal experience with these tools but there are lots of good
references here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3189100/php-compiler-for-windows

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Jeff Slutz
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jeff at jeffslutz.com


On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Charles Vasquez <cvasquez39 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > what is hip hop? When you speak about compiling do you mean creating a
> > windows dll or something? I am new to this type of speak, not new to php,
> > but the php community. I practice php for personal purposes.
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> Hip Hop is a technology developed by Facebook. It basically takes PHP
> source code and rewrites it as highly optimized C++ code (or maybe
> just C, I can't remember). It makes the code run faster and scale
> better for them.
>
> But by compiling, I mean creating a Windows executable. A program you
> can run directly without having to have the language interpreter on
> your machine. So I could write PHP code, compile it to a Windows
> executable and distribute that .exe file which people could run
> directly on their machines without having to have PHP installed. While
> a DLL is something pretty similar and is compiled, it's not quite the
> same thing. DLL's are more libraries of functions that programs can
> use while a program executable is the program itself.
>
> That's probably clear as mud, I'm sure. I suck at explaining things.
>
> Anthony
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