I read that Roadsend released another version of their PHP compiler on Freshmeat.net so I decided to try it out on debian.
First I had to install bigloo. I've never heard of that before - cool!
Uh-oh:
checking for bigloo... bigloo checking version of bigloo... 2.8c, bad configure: error: Bigloo version 3.0b, 3.0c required See `config.log' for more details.
Looks like I'll have to wait until bigloo version 3.0b+ is available on debian unstable.