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.
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