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snowcrash+eacc

2007-04-29, 7:13 pm

hi,

i've been using eA for quite a while on Apache2x-dev + php52x-dev. works great.

i've recently gotten a query from a client with a bee in their bonnet
about using XCache (http://xcache.lighttpd.net) instead.

No details. No rationale. Simply a reference to,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_accelerator
"XCache ... Developed to overcome some of the limitations of the
existing solutions at that time."

Lovely. How I love useless fire-drills.

Before I waste an inordinate amount of time exploring XCache, can
someone here provide a relatively objective comparison -- frankly, I'm
looking for argument -- beyond the apprently insufficient "what we are
using, eA, already works" -- that'll keep me from changing from eA.

I'm not trolling -- just looking for some technical insight.

Thanks!

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Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez

2007-04-30, 7:15 pm

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, snowcrash+eacc wrote:
> i've recently gotten a query from a client with a bee in their bonnet
> about using XCache (http://xcache.lighttpd.net) instead.
>
> No details. No rationale. Simply a reference to,
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_accelerator
> "XCache ... Developed to overcome some of the limitations of the
> existing solutions at that time."
>
> Lovely. How I love useless fire-drills.



It only lists the "can be used with newer PHP versions" as a limitation:
http://trac.lighttpd.net/xcache/wiki/Introduction


Regards.

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snowcrash+eacc

2007-04-30, 7:15 pm

> It only lists the "can be used with newer PHP versions" as a limitation:
> http://trac.lighttpd.net/xcache/wiki/Introduction


thanks -- aware of that.

none of my clients/installs have been on php4 for ages -- admittedly,
not a part of any comparison for us.

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Bart Vanbrabant

2007-04-30, 7:15 pm

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snowcrash+eacc

2007-04-30, 7:15 pm

hi,

> eA has one bug advantage to APC and XCache and that's the
> ability to cache code to files.


that's a legit/important point. gr8. thanks.

> that's their code is a lot cleaner and so it's easier to
> maintain. We are making steady improvements each release
> due to major refactoring in each release.


understood. the progress has been clear with eA -- especially with the
95x+ evolution.

realizing that everyone's busy-as-usual, any eA "roadmap" that'll
address the clean-code/maintenance issue to a comparable level?
personally, i don't think it's a deal-breaker, but useful to
undersstand ...

> Caching is done but I'm
> pretty sure they are also caching stuff that is implicitly
> available and so it shouldn't be cached.


that's worth looking into further, i think ...

> I hope this helps.


it does. thanks!

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2007-04-30, 7:15 pm

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snowcrash

2007-04-30, 7:15 pm

> Hans and me (the two developers) are both busy with their job/studies at
> the moment. Those things are both more important then an hobby project.
> I hope to do work on eAccelerator during the summer vacation. Probably
> resulting in a release in the fourth quarter of this year.
> It should include a lot of bugfixes as usual and I hope to get the new
> caching code in. This should improve the design considerably.


understood. thanks very much!

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