Re: [binarycloud-dev] Zend Cache and binarycloud = more power

[Michael K. <mi...@ta...>]

Alex Black wrote:
>>An alternative free caching engine which compares with Zend is APC
>>http://apc.communityconnect.com/
>>
>>When Rasmus was last here he recommended it.. so I assume it's quite good.
>>:)
>>
>>* Blake
>>
> 
> yeah, I need to have a look at it.... I've heard it's quite good, though not
> as polished as Zend Cache.
> 
> _a



Our own testing/usage/demos (in production on a couple machines too) has 
shown APC to give, on average, about 50% throughput/increase.  Some 
pages are more, some are less.  I was planning on testing the zend cache 
as well, but haven't had time yet.

Zend cache caches code after it's been through the zend optimizer, which 
  accounts for at least some of its extra speed increase over APC and 
Bware cache.  Very little of what we do is NOT through a database, so 
we've never bothered testing code that wasn't database connected.  APC 
may be faster than our 50% for non-db sites.  I just can't think of too 
many sites I'd bother using PHP on that weren't db-enabled.

APC and Bware won't work with the zend optimizer (well, I KNOW APC won't 
  - I don't remember if bware does or not).  The optimizer code is not 
open source, so it's kinda hard for APC to compete with them on that 
level, but the APC people claim many millions of page views per day, and 
significant capacity boosts because of their product.  It's kinda hard 
to beat the price, for even a 50% speed up, imo.

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