Re: APC in trunk

On 6/20/10 7:44 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> Can you elaborate? What "average user"-facing features are non-obvious? >> We should document them if nothing else. > > This recently caught my attention: > http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16745 > As I understood from this bug, APC changes how PHP works (since it works > without APC but not with it) and it is not considered a problem in APC. > Which means enabling APC by default is a BC break, and there's already a > proof that it breaks real-life code (even if particular code had been > changed to work with it, the fact that APC can break otherwise working > code stays). Now probably most of the experienced users wouldn't mind > fixing the code a bit, but for enabling by default it should be 100% BC. This is an unfixed PHP bug. There have been a number of threads about the object destruction order on internals. It isn't just APC that is affected by this. Other extensions are affected as well. > apc.file_update_protection could have some unexpected results too. Not any that change the behaviour of PHP. -Rasmus