Replace complex PHP code with C code

Question

I query an Oracle database using PHP but at a certain point, probably dued to the fact that the PHP code is very complex, I get a memory leak. I'm working to solve this but I ask you: if I convert all the complex PHP code to C code and I call an "exec" from PHP when needed, do I gain something in performance and memory optimization? Or is it a bad idea? And why?

Answer 1

If you want to rewrite the code in C, then you'd be better off writing it as a PHP module than as a standalone program called from PHP using exec().