To understand the *'s just google for c pointer tutorial, you're likely to find alot of helpful material. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:37:26 -0500, Jason Barnett <jason.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Jason Barnett wrote: > > > >> Jay Blanchard wrote: > ... > > In the end you are probably much better off learning a bit of C or C++ > > and writing your own PHP extensions than hoping that someone will make a > > compiler that will magically speed everything up. PHP was designed > > specifically with this in mind. The idea is to keep things that don't > ... > > better performance than any "PHP Compiler" ever will. And it really > > isn't that hard to write a PHP extension. > > > > -Rasmus > > I actually looked into building my own extension before. I saw some of > the docs from the talks.php.net site and most of it made sense to me. > So I agree that the PHP <-> extensions interface is simple enough for a > poor slob like myself to understand. > > Can you (or anyone else for that matter) give me a book recommendation > that explains C coding to someone with intermediate PHP skills? > > I already have George Schlossnagle's book and it's great (it taught me a > lot of what I know about the source), but it assumes a level of > proficiency in C that I just don't have. > > I know that you have to allocate memory for variables, you have strict > types (although I'm vaguely familiar with a zval), but some things like > all of those **'s I see in the source code just don't make sense to me. > Recommendations, anyone? > > -- > Teach a man to fish... > > NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 > STFM | http://php.net/manual/en/index.php > STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php > LAZY | > http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
