Re: Zend Cache and Compiler Pricing

At 03:51 AM 12/11/00 -0800, you wrote:

The guys behind PHP are finally going to be selling products for real money, which should help insure the future of PHP. Sounds good. But a question remains, what's the pricing going to be. Keep on reading for what little birds have to say. <snip> Little (and not so little) birds whisper that the Zend Cache will run $2,000 per processor, and the Zend Compiler $6,000 per station.

Just saw a listing on hotscripts.com for Bware_cache. Initially it looks like this will do what Zend Cache would do but for free (instead of the ridiculous $2000 per processor). "It works by caching inside the web server compiled php code (just before it's executed) so that the next time the same script is called it is simply restored, already compiled, from the cache with big savings in terms of execution time. Caching and saving scripts at compile time can be a big performance win, especially if your php script is complex and makes heavy use of libraries. We needed something to speed up an application running on a very busy site so we wrote it; it's still beta code that can probably be optimized more (especially regarding memory consumption) but we use it daily for serving contents on very busy web sites and are very happy with it." As of today this module is known to work with apache-1.3.x and php-4.0.3pl1. We want to release it in the public domain to let other people look at it, try it and give us some feedback." http://bwcache.bware.it/ Thoughts ?