Did not know about APC...nice. Does APC just compile it after the first time and save it in memory? Can you use APC to create a packaged compiled file?
edit: at least they're not intended to create "binaries". you can probably mess around with APC and make php look and behave like a compiled language. but you won't gain any notable speed improvements beyond the on the fly caching.
edit2: you can store php projects in a jar like file, caller phar. http://php.net/phar