[Typo3-dev] PHP caching

[Georg Kuehnberger]

Luc,

>I hope I was able to give you a brief overview about the availablity of 
>todays PHP caching technology.
>Feedback is welcome....

In your list please also add:
         The ionCube PHP Accelerator
         http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/
which works great for us on RedHat since about 2 years;

>o Zend optimizer
>I made some tests (not yet with typo3) and experianced a performance-lost 
>(yes, lost)
> From my point of view not worth to be looked at it further, closed 
> source, poor performance.

I dont share your experience; we're using ZO on Suse for more than one 
year, with pretty good results = performance similar to ionCube PHP 
Accelerator;

Guess this completes the big picture;

regards georg




At 22:38 02.04.2004, Luc de Louw wrote:
>Folks,
>
>On the last Swiss TUG meeting we had a discussion about PHP caching and 
>the death and alive of certain projects. (Dominic, I promissed to post 
>something...;-)
>
>
>I made some research and found out the following:
>
>o APC (Alternative PHP Cache)
>
>The project origin site is out out date (http://apc.communityconnect.com/)
>
>It is now hosted at pear.php.net (http://pecl.php.net/package/APC)
>
>I'm surprised and glad, that this project is still alive! In ancient times 
>it was bringing some very good results. I did not made any tests sice more 
>that one year. I'm going to test the most recent release 2.0.3 in the next 
>days.
>
>o Turck mmcache
>
>For me the most promissing project. Also tought dead. Is is NOT!
>The project founder Dmitry has a new job at zend.com due to his great 
>knowledge.
>
>According to 
>http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1009539&forum_id=236227 
>the project is to be renamed and is still alive.
>
>Evidence: 
>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/turck-mmcache/turck-mmcache/?sortby=date#dirlist
>
>o Zend optimizer
>
>I made some tests (not yet with typo3) and experianced a performance-lost 
>(yes, lost)
>
> From my point of view not worth to be looked at it further, closed 
> source, poor performance.
>
>Conclusion: There are still some high-quality opensource caching products 
>available :-)
>
>I hope I was able to give you a brief overview about the availablity of 
>todays PHP caching technology.
>
>Feedback is welcome....
>
>rgds
>
>Luc
>
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>http://www.bit-heads.ch
>
>
>
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