Internal Apparatus:
Beginning the Deep Dive

By Edward Barnard

Understanding C code requires far more than understanding the language syntax—we need to understand the environment and context. Along the way, we’ll learn more about how computers work. We’ll be taking a deep dive into how PHP implements arrays. We begin our deep dive this month by looking at the PHP executable file and PHP’s packed hash table.

This article was originally published in the February 2019 issue of php[architect] magazine. To read the complete article please subscribe or purchase the complete issue.

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