[Solar-talk] Solar & APC

[Clay Loveless]

On Aug 17, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:

> On 8/17/06, Clay Loveless wrote:
>> Take a look at http://eaccelerator.net
>
> I've considered it, but choose APC because it was more 'official'.

Yeah, that's what I thought too. However, I have learned over the  
past several years that just because a PHP-related project has  
"names" from the community attached to it doesn't mean that it's  
better than alternative solutions. This has been proven repeatedly  
from my perspective. :)

> Ok, I'll give it a try. Although APC works fine if you load classes in
> the right order, from parents to childs.

Ah, perhaps that was my problem before. Definitely a requirement that  
should be filed under "buggy behavior". ;)

> I have to move some functions that use APC for caching specific data,
> and maybe we can think in a class to load cache using APC or
> eaccelerator (I guess it has functions for this) or anything else. Do
> you think this would be a good idea?

Seems like it would be cool to me as a Solar_Cache adapter. An  
adapter for those using Zend Platform suite would probably also be  
helpful, as that extension offers caching functionality as well.

And yes, I believe eaccelerator has a cache feature similar to that  
of Zend Platform, since ZP's core comes primarily from Turck MMCache  
if I understand correctly. Zend hired the Turck guy a couple years  
ago and folded a lot of his stuff into ZP.

Another solution that I'm looking into myself is Xcache. It didn't  
work well for me a couple months ago, but it's being actively  
developed by the Lighty folks. If you're into experimenting with  
Lighty, may be another good option.

http://trac.lighttpd.net/xcache/wiki/

-Clay

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