[PHP] How does the Zend engine behave?

Hi, I'm using PHP 4.x and I'm trying to understand a bit about memory usage... Firstly, when I say 'include files' below, I mean all forms, include, require and the _once versions. That said, when a script runs and it's made of several include files, what happens? Are the include files

Re: [PHP] How does the Zend engine behave?

Jon Anderson wrote: Take this with a grain of salt. I develop with PHP, but I am not an internals guy... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the include files only compiled when execution hits them, or are all include files compiled when the script is first compiled, which would mean a cascade

Re: [PHP] How does the Zend engine behave?

Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, October 25, 2006 11:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the include files only compiled when execution hits them, or are all include files compiled when the script is first compiled, which would mean a cascade through all statically linked include files. By