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Can you “compile” PHP code?
After I write an application in PHP, why can't I compile it into machine language? I know that it's possible to make a byte-code version of the file, which (as I understand it) is basically a file that has already been parsed into tokens.
But that's not what I want. Clearly it can't work in a general sense, since compiled code will be platform-specific, but let's say I have chosen a given platform. Why can't I create a binary file that would be the same code that PHP would run when given my .php file?
