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Is the zend engine a virtual machine?

- I believe the following link helps confirm that the Zend engine does run as a virtual machine - http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358. Although not technically from a Zend source, a high up developer who worked on the HipHop project should be a trusted source?

Zend Platform[edit]

Is Zend Platform and Engine the same? - Viruswitch 12:15, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can somebody please move this to Zend Engine? — 68.255.110.127 16:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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What language was it developed in? 201.235.33.151 14:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm pretty sure that "Zend Engine" is just an interpreter, i don't think it can be called a virtual machine...

Correct.

Also, should "Zend Performance Suit" redirect to "Zend Engine"? <rafagd[et]gmail[dot]com>201.80.185.200 (talk) 11:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not familiar with that.

The "Zend Engine" *is* the PHP interpreter. PHP is an extremely well-known and used server-side scripting language, and the "Zend Engine" refers to the PHP interpreter itself; a program that interprets the PHP code into a lower-level language and returns the output to the caller. I'll see if I can make some slight edits to make this more clear. Renaissongsman (talk) 21:47, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So what the heck does it do?[edit]

Currently, the article doesn't answer the most important question a software developer could ask about a piece of an alleged important part of the platform they're developing code on: so what the heck does it do?

Currently, the article states that it's a "Scripting engine" and a "virtual machine" (mentioned almost as an afterthough in the lead!) that's somehow related to PHP, it was written by two guys back in the PHP4 days, it rocked so it became popular, and verily, it is also part of PHP5. The very essence of the program isn't explained all; what is explained that it's part of the whole. Apologies for using such strong words, but this article is pure fluff!

Tell me, please, I'm clueless! What is Zend, when you really think about it? What sort of scripting engine or a virtual machine? How does it do what it does? How does it compare to other scripting engines? --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 17:52, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully my edit attempt will enlighten those in darkness. Renaissongsman (talk) 22:03, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What else does it do?[edit]

I am puzzled by the phrase:

...commonly known for the important role it plays in the web automation language PHP.

THis suggests that as well as running PHP, it is also used for running something else. But I am unable to find any references to any such thing. What is meant here? -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 03:41, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

fix this sentence?[edit]

there's something wrong with the following sentence:h As an open-source project, programmers from all over the world who volunteer their time and skills to expand and improve the PHP/Zend Engine codebase.

88.88.102.27 (talk) 19:41, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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