Sometimes you have large amount of generated data that you don’t want to create on every web request. An examples would be a home page with several news posts on it. The text would be in a database, but all the ‘extra’ things you did like bbtags present in the text, information about the user that posted it, etc etc [...]
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Oct 182009
This is as follow up on my previous blog post on “Why use an opcode cacher” In that post I mention you can store data in memory. The reason why one should want to do this, is again “performance” Just think about it, for each request, what amount of data is gotten over and over again? Most of the time [...]
Oct 182009
Why use an opcode cacher? When users surf to the website(s) hosted on your machine, the php files are compiled each time. Compiling the php code you worked so hard to develop takes time, and the more files you have, the longer it takes. This is especially the case when using PHP frameworks(personally I use CakePHP) or when using a [...]