I don't think you understood the comments above, but I definitely don't understand your point... Compilers introduce bugs, yes. Compilers are code, and code ca

I don't think you understood the comments above, but I definitely don't understand your point... Compilers introduce bugs, yes. Compilers are code, and code can have bugs and regressions. But the comments above make no mention of bugs are regressions. They said compiling php into machine code is "impossible." Going form high level interfaces to lower level is the easy part. It's what all interprets and compilers do already. Having different intermediate forms is also a very common practice. There is nothing special about php here. Except for maybe it's underserved reputation of being an obtuse language.