Compiler

A compiler is a program that translates source code into another form, typically machine code or bytecode.

In the context of PHP, the term compiler can refer to: + The PHP compiler that translates PHP source code into opcodes + Tools like kphp or static-php-cli that compile PHP to binary + The halt-compiler construct that signals end of PHP code in a file + The PHP-Parser library which provides a compiler-like AST transformation

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Related : Compile, Transpile, Ahead Of Time, Just In Time (JIT), Opcode, Abstract Syntactic Tree (AST), __halt_compiler(), Interpreted