lzpfmh/zephir-runtime

Runtime LLVM (JIT) zephir version

Zephir Runtime

Zephir - Ze(nd Engine) Ph(p) I(nt)r(mediate) - is a high-level language that can be plugged-in into the Zend Engine. Code is compiled on-the-fly using a JIT compiler (LLVM).

Main features:

• Both dynamic/static typing
• Reduced execution overhead compared with full interpretation
• Restricted procedural programming, promoting OOP
• Memory safety
• Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler

Compiler design goals:

• Multi-pass compilation
• Type speculation/inference
• Allow runtime profile-guided optimizations, pseudo-constant propagation and indirect/virtual function inlining

Get Started

Phalcon is written in C with platform independence in mind. As a result, Phalcon is available on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either download a binary package for the system of your choice or build it from sources.

Windows

To install Phalcon on Windows:

1. Download Phalcon for Windows
2. Extract the DLL file and copy it to your PHP extensions directory
3. Edit your php.ini file and add this line: extension=php_phalcon.dll
4. Finally, restart your webserver

Hint: To ensure that your Phalcon installation was successful, debug with <?php phpinfo(); ?> and search for a section mentioning the Phalcon extension.

Linux/Unix/Mac

On a Unix-based platform you can easily compile and install the extension from sources.

Requirements

Prerequisite packages are:

• PHP 5.3.x/5.4.x/5.5.x development resources
• GCC compiler (Linux/Solaris) or Xcode (Mac)

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install php5-dev libpcre3-dev gcc make libllvm-3.5-ocaml-dev

Suse:

sudo zypper install php5-devel gcc make llvm-clang-devel

CentOS/Fedora/RHEL

sudo yum install php-devel pcre-devel gcc make llvm-devel

Compilation

Follow these instructions to generate a binary extension for your platform:

git clone https://github.com/dreamsxin/runtime.git
cd zephir
sudo ./install

Add the extension to your php.ini:

extension=zephir.so

Finally, restart the webserver.

Documentation & Blog

• A preliminary documentation can be found here
• Official Blog can be found here
• Sublime/TextMate highlight-syntax bundle here

License

Zephir is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details about contributions to this repository.