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The Joy of Turck MMCache
It’s been said before but Turck MMCache is a great piece of software. As it says on the cover;
Turck MMCache is a free open source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache for PHP. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. Also it uses some optimizations to speed up execution of PHP scripts. Turck MMCache typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.
Last time I looked at it was back in the beginning of 2003, when I needed an accelerator for a Windows server running PHP. Since then it’s come on along way and now offers what it calls a “dynamic content cache” which is what got me interested again.
Installation is a breeze on Linux and even easier on Windows - the author bothers to take the time to compile Windows dlls for just about every PHP version back to 4.1.0, making this about the only Open Source PHP accelerator you can run easily on under Windows, without needing to drag out VC++.
The dynamic content cache provides an API for storing data in …
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