Checkout HipHop by the Facebook guys, it turns PHP into C code and compiles down to binary. ...although I don't think it's for the faint hearted. Have you tried other optimisation techniques first - eg Caching, and Profiling?? If this is a production environment you might wanna think about increasing resources or introducing a load balancer (in the case of PHP based websites) Cheers Ads. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Camille Hodoul <camille.hodoul@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:52:14 To: Kevin Peterson<qh.resu01@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Compiler for the PHP code Googling "compile php code" gave me this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1408417/can-you-compile-php-code It looks like you have some options but I haven't tried any yet, so I can't help you with the installation 2013/3/19 Kevin Peterson <qh.resu01@xxxxxxxxx> > My webcode written in PHP and it is running in the interpreted way. My > problem is it is not giving the desired performance so want to try the > compiler if any. > Please suggest if we have any compiler option available for the PHP code > and more important is this new option. > > -- Camille Hodoul http://camille-hodoul.com/