[devNoise]

Does anyone have an idea for some of Recki-CT's use cases? I get that compiled PHP will be faster. This seems useful for PHP scripts you would run from the command line. Using the resulting binary as a CGI with Apache would incur the fork/exec cost that the PHP module avoided.

[maxerickson]

Some explanation here:

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/08/introducing-recki-ct.html

(it's vaguely redundant with the readme, but there is some additional stuff)

[bastawhiz]

There are plenty of extremely large PHP applications that would certainly benefit from compilation. Before HHVM, Facebook compiled all of their PHP to C++, which was distributed as a giant binary.