Benchmarking 3 PHP Accelerators
jfbus writes "PHP, like all scripting languages, suffers from having to parse all script files each time a page is displayed. Accelerators (opcode caches) are necessary to speed PHP enough for large websites. Here is a benchmark of the major PHP accelerators (Zend platform, apc and eAccelerator)."
Woonderful, these tools reimplemented ECMAScript, fucked it up with ugly, $-prefixed builtins, dumbed it some more and then sprinkled their spec with illegible english. What an awesome language not to code in.
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