Pas mieux, and I am sure johannes did not find the need to express himself and/or these mind limitations on his blog :)
harf I am so bad I know. -mmw 2009/12/21 Johannes Schlüter <johan...@php.net>: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 14:56 +0100, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >> I would like to learn more about how the interpreter works, but I was >> unable to find good documents on the web. Basically I am thinking on >> something about allocation of variables, how does object creation work >> and such stuff. Maybe something on the overall architecture of PHP >> would be of interest too. >> >> In java world there is the JVM specification, I hoped there is >> something for PHP too. > > Well there's one quite complete document about it available - the source > code ;-) PHP isn't developed following standards but simply by > implementing and extending it. PHP is defined by the implementation ... > > But: What exactly do you want to learn? Do you want to learn how to use > it better or "academic reasons" or something else? - Depending on all > that the focus of the learning might be quite different. > > As a starting point for this I recently created a small toy project: A > minimal basic inspired language on top of the ZendVM, just 200 lines of > C code which might give a few pointers to do further research. It's > quite hackish ugly code but enough to compile and execute a script like > this: > > 10 GOTO 40 > 20 PRINT "B" > 30 END > 40 PRINT "A" > 50 GOTO 20 > > This all will be compiled to Zend Opcodes which can be executed, cached > with APC, dumped by vld, ... > > I hope I find the time to write the documentation around it, other than > that this code is absolutely useless :-) > > http://github.com/johannes/pasic > > johannes > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
