Re: APC in trunk

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:39:30PM -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Stas, > > If there is a better alternative to APC we can bundle with PHP, I am > definitely open to exploring that idea. However the alternatives I am > familiar either are closed source or have licences incompatible with > PHP, and that's without getting into the "better" argument. > As a PHP user, when moving to PHP 5.3, from 5.2 I had the question regarding which accel to use (I had been using APC). From most of what I read, APC was not compatible and looking at the APC site, the last 'stable' release was ~2years ago with a bunch of betas. I then looked at XCache and saw that it was "more maintained" as well as explicitly mentioned PHP 5.3 compatibility. In other words, to the unwashed masses, XCache, for example, seemed a "better" and "safer" choice than APC, despite the list of names attached to the latter. Certainly I would have preferred staying with APC but it sure seemed like it was a side project that people just lost interest in... Moving it to be an actual *part* of PHP would go a LOOOONG way in showing others that APC is a serious codebase again. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] jim@jaguNET.com [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war" ~ John Adams