On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:33:35 James McGlinn wrote: > Hi Cliff, > > > A PHP Cache/Accelerator compiles and stores the PHP source for later > > retrieval. > > Having pre-compiled PHP eliminates the JIT compilation - therefore > > speeding up page display. > > Pre-compiled PHP still allows dynamic variables etc, so you can > > still view dynamic pages, just after. > > Such accelerators are: Zend Optimiser, eAccelerator, MemCache etc > > Memcache isn't a PHP bytecode cache, but it is excellent for > distributed in-memory caching of partial or complete HTML pages, SQL > result sets, objects, session info, etc. > > APC seems to be becoming something of a standard for bytecode caching > - and it will likely be bundled with PHP6.
The O.P. may be assuming PHP compilation is for something it (AFAIK) isn't. In conversations with Zend I have been advised that it's for code copy-protection and licensing and has no performance benefits. If someone can point me to something that quantifies otherwise, please do as I am always looking for a angle to tweak my code... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
