On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
> On 01/29/2013 06:13 AM, Nikita Popov wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure I fully understand this. The RFC claims that Optimizer+ is
> > already *now* fully compatible with PHP 5.5. And that it was also
> > compatible when PHP 5.4 was released. So they lack of a working and free
> > opcode cache clearly wasn't the issue. My guess is rather that the lack
> > of APC support (as in specifically APC and not just some opcode cache)
> > was an issue. Either because people didn't know about alternatives (APC
> > after all is the go-to opcode cache), didn't want to try them or had
> > software tightly integrated with APC (and in particular its user cache).
>
> Closed source isn't an option for many sites.
>
So then this is a solved issue, right? Zend will open source Optimizer+
(very cool!). Everyone gets a working opcode cache (win), the release is
not delayed (win). For 5.6 it can be included into the distribution (a bit
more win).
Nikita :)