Compiler

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

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.

Documentation

See Also

• Zend Engine
• PHP OPcache

Related

• Compile
• Transpile
• Ahead Of Time
• Just In Time (JIT)
• Opcode
• Abstract Syntactic Tree (AST)
• __halt_compiler()
• Interpreted
• Hoisting
• Multi-pass Algorithm
• phpinfo()
• Source Code
• Ternary Operator
• Tokenizer