Zephir - Ze(nd Engine) Ph(p) I(nt)r(mediate) - is a high-level language that can be plugged-in into the Zend Engine. Code is compiled on-the-fly using a JIT compiler (LLVM).
Main features:
- Both dynamic/static typing
- Reduced execution overhead compared with full interpretation
- Restricted procedural programming, promoting OOP
- Memory safety
- Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler
Compiler design goals:
- Multi-pass compilation
- Type speculation/inference
- Allow runtime profile-guided optimizations, pseudo-constant propagation and indirect/virtual function inlining
- A preliminary documentation can be found here
- Official Blog can be found here
- Sublime/TextMate highlight-syntax bundle here
Zephir is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for details about contributions to this repository.