Beyond the VM: A Deep Dive into Compiling PHP to Native Assembly with elephc

Originally published on tamiz.pro. Beyond the VM: A Deep Dive into Compiling PHP to Native Assembly with elephc The PHP Virtual Machine (VM), or Zend Engine, has long been the undisputed engine powering web applications. It executes the Zend Virtual Machine (ZVM) bytecode, which is an intermediate representation that abstracts the underlying...