Re: Is this a dream?

Okay, a few things to correct in this thread... 1. There will be a Zend cache very, very, very soon... I'm not saying an exact date -- I leave that up to Marketing. But if you see 1/23 on http://zend.com then that must be right. (If you see it anywhere else, ignore it.) 2. The cache will make your site *way* faster -- like twice as fast on machines with fast disk I/O (eg Solaris) and more like 4X on slower disk OSes (eg Linux). Whether that's worth the price tag to you or not depends on a lot of factors -- including how much effort/support it is for you to add another box to your server farm. 3. If the source code they use has proprietary Zend source in it, they are in violation of various copyright laws etc... 4. The figure was reported in the Jerusalem Post, I think, but I can neither confirm nor deny its accuracy. Again, that's up to Marketing. 5. The Zend Cache will have the Optimizer builtin, I think... At any rate, the code isn't compiled so much as it's just kept in RAM -- "compile" tends to mean "create an executable binary file", which this RAM cache doesn't do. 6. The Zend Cache should not be confused with the Zend Encoder (fka Zend Compiler) which *will* create a binary file -- but it's not executable, so we stopped calling it a Compiler. It's a binary-loadable file that protects intellectual property. It does *not* drastically improve performance, and should not be purchased as a performance-improvement measure. The Zend Cache is for performance. The Zend Encoder should be purhcased if you want to distribute a cool PHP application without releasing source nor becoming an ISP. 7. I'm not sure what they did to mess up include files -- The Zend products don't have this problem, because the include()s are done on-demand. Include files are cached independently by the Zend Cache, and maintained as separate files by the Zend Encoder. Hope that helps some people clarify things in their minds a bit. More details can be found at http://www.zend.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leon Mergen" <leon@blazenetwork.com> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 8:23 AM Subject: [PHP] Is this a dream? > http://bwcache.bware.it/ > > A PHP accelerator.... pre-compiles PHP scripts, restores it from memory.... Is this a dream or something? > > Just tought you guys might find that interesting... > > --- > I love work! I can watch it for hours! >