Compiler

[ip2k]

It'd be excellent if this allowed you to "compile" your final work into a machine-readable format that would execute more quickly. The inspiration for this comes from great implementations like Magento's PHP compiler ( http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/magento-compiler.html ) and asm.js ( http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/ ).

I really believe that we could achieve at least a 20% speed-up here by implementing this, but see my other bug about method instrumentation for a good idea on actually measuring this.

[jameshadley]

I fear the compiler may remove the majority of the developers hard work.