#26 - Low Level PHP

01/06/2025 17 min Episodio 26
#26 - Low Level PHP

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Episode Synopsis

There is renewed interest in PHP's low level roots. The low-level root of PHP is the language it is written in: C.

This renewed interest includes compiling PHP feature code with the PHP interpreter, into one executable binary. And, includes speeding up code execution by way of the C language's process forks.

This all has direct relevance to PHP serverless. Which has heightened my desire to understand C.

FrankenPHP is now under the auspices of the PHP Foundation. This has further heightened my desire to understand the low level underpinings of PHP.

In this episode, I talk about this mini-trend, outline what it means to be a low level programming language, and take a quick look at random access memory. All this as a prelude to a special mid-month episode going over low level concepts in C in a classic textbook.

It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of:
• Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea
• Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan

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• Episode's web page: "https://bobbloomshow.com/episode/bob-bloom-show-ep26-low-level-php"
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