born out of a need to write 'protected source' for embedded devices - based on APC,
- • Thead safe
- • Writes and reads streams
- • Uses compression (to reduce binary sizes)
- • Has features to load code from a merged '.exe' +
bytecode
- • Works with classes and functions (not raw PHP)
- • All compiler methods are implemented as php
functions
- • Best used in conjunction tokenizer to parse php
scripts.