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Friday 13 June 2008
APC
I'd never come across a "PHP accelerator" before, but a friend from #bit-tech (andatche) told me about APC - the Alternative PHP Cache.
Wikipedia has this to say about PHP accelerators:
With andatche's help, I managed to get APC installed on my Slice and it instantly sped up the PHP execution. As my templates use PHP and are mostly static, they are cached in memory instead of being regenerated each time, and with each successive request the pages are built from the cache instead of from the filesystem.
Anything that speeds up my site cannot be a bad thing!
Wikipedia has this to say about PHP accelerators:
A PHP accelerator is an extension designed to boost the performance of software applications written using the PHP programming language. Most PHP accelerators work by caching the compiled bytecode of PHP scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling source code on each request (some or all of which may never even be executed).
With andatche's help, I managed to get APC installed on my Slice and it instantly sped up the PHP execution. As my templates use PHP and are mostly static, they are cached in memory instead of being regenerated each time, and with each successive request the pages are built from the cache instead of from the filesystem.
Anything that speeds up my site cannot be a bad thing!
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