Not a stub, a bridge. As you can see in the readme, there IS a php runtime embedded in ruby. So that covers your redundant requests for interpreter and runtime.

Not a stub, a bridge. As you can see in the readme, there IS a php runtime embedded in ruby. So that covers your redundant requests for interpreter and runtime. Compiler? Why? Embedded and dynamic linking? Does that even make sense in the PHP world? Sounds nonsensical to me, but I've avoided PHP until now.