To be honest, I'm not familiar with Zend Optimizer myself but was planning to give it a try if the Zend FW would also be released as an encoded version so I checked out the Zend website to make sure and noticed that I was wrong. I thought there used to be a Zend software with which you could convert your scripts into bytecode and prevent your scripts from having to be converted to bytecode every run. But I noticed that Zend Guard is the only software they have to encode your scripts and it's only to protect your scripts, so no performance gain is applicable.
The reason I suggested it because not every can afford the software, Zend Guard is $600/€600. But since I was wrong this can be ignored. I'm just guessing with the above, but another major point I'd personally feel uncomfortable with is the fact that I can't "see" the code I'm running. One of the main benefits of open source code is that I can audit (and if necessary tweak) the code to suit my needs. You got a point but since it's a framework it's best to extend the code instead of editing it, unless it's a bug fix, because otherwise you'd have to re-apply the code every new release of the ZFW. And if it's about privacy we're not talking about Google here but *Zend* ;-) On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isaak Malik wrote: > >> Is it possible to also release Zend encoded releases of the Zend Framework >> in the future? >> This would be an increase in performance and a good promotion for the Zend >> optimizer on Zend's side. >> >> I'm wondering why Zend hasn't done this already, if there is a reason not >> to I'd be very interested in knowing it. >> > > I'm not an expert on the Zend Optimizer stuff, but I presume it's not hard > for a user of the Zend Optimizer to encode the files himself? > > Also would optimisations be specific to PHP version and/or architecture? If > so then encoded distribution becomes impractical. > > I'm just guessing with the above, but another major point I'd personally > feel uncomfortable with is the fact that I can't "see" the code I'm running. > One of the main benefits of open source code is that I can audit (and if > necessary tweak) the code to suit my needs. > > For example I've currently deployed a slightly modified Zend_Auth as per > the bugs posted in: > http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-4460 > > Just some idle thoughts.... > > Col > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > Open Source: > Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > -- Isaak Malik Web Developer
