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Discussion on: Do they know it's C in PHP 🎄

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Rasmus Schultz

PHP is not even translated into native binary: the Zend Engine is an execution machine that uses opcodes

PHP 8 introduced just-in-time (JIT) compilation - it actually does compile opcodes to native machine instructions, like Java or C#.

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Guillermo Prandi

OK, that's news for me. Anyway, it's definitely not C language.