Swoole-Compiler will provide a PHP Native AOT compiler,

[TC74]

Swoole-Compiler will provide a PHP Native AOT compiler, supporting the compilation of PHP code into executable files, improving computational performance by 150 times.

Will this impact FrankenPHP?

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/05I3xe4pgRJufSBG-8Gz6w

[henderkes]

No.

[AlliBalliBaba]

It's actually a really cool project if they can pull it off. Not having full compatibility makes it kind of its own compiler though completely separate from php-src. Similar to what Hacklang did.

You could probably still link it to FrankenPHP somehow, but I guess it would be easier to just use the built-in server.

[henderkes]

There are multiple reasons why this won't affect FrankenPHP:

• swoole compiler compiles into native executables, we can't produce a shared "php" library that FrankenPHP could run.
• swoole compiler isn't compatible with yield, which immediately excludes any hope of running any modern framework like Symfony, Laravel, or even Wordpress.
• swoole compiler is built by the swoole team, for swooles execution model, where it itself is the webserver

It sadly goes against everything FrankenPHP is trying to support and is directly built for something that replaces FrankenPHP.

Now it would be interesting if they created C-ABI shared libraries that FrankenPHP could load and call into... but honestly then every other webserver could do that too, since it wouldn't have anything to do with PHP anymore.