Zend Engine¶
The Zend Engine is the core runtime engine of PHP: it’s the part of PHP that actually interprets, compiles, and executes your PHP code.
It is named after its two original authors: Zeev Zuraski and Andy Gutmans.
See also PHP & Zend Engine.
Related : PHP Engine, Virtual Machine (VM), Core, Internals, PHP, Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), Zval, __halt_compiler()
