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List of PHP accelerators
Below is a list of PHP accelerators:
List of PHP accelerators
Alternative PHP Cache
Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free, open source framework that optimizes PHP intermediate code and caches
data and compiled code from the PHP bytecode compiler in shared memory. APC is quickly becoming the de-facto
standard PHP caching mechanism as it will be included built-in to the core of PHP starting with PHP 6.
• Home page: http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
• PHP version: works with all PHP versions including PHP5.2 and PHP5.3 (3.1.3p1 - beta release) (not PHP5.0)
• Latest stable version: 3.1.3 (2009-08-13)
• Status: stable, actively maintained. Will be included in the core of PHP 6.
• Download link: http://pecl.php.net/package/APC (source)
• Download link for Windows: http://downloads.php.net/pierre/(provides some of the PECL extensions,
previously available on pecl4win)
• Official installation help: http://php.net/apc.setup
eAccelerator
eAccelerator was born in December 2004 as a fork of the Turck MMCache project. Turck MMCache was created by
Dmitry Stogov and much of the eAccelerator code is still based on his work. eAccelerator also contained a PHP
encoder and loader, but the development staff discontinued the encoder and removed this feature after December
2006.
• Home Page: http://eaccelerator.net/
• PHP version: Supports PHP 4 and all PHP 5 thread-safe releases including 5.3 from version 0.9.6. In older
releases, the encoder will only work with PHP versions from the 4.x.x branch. eAccelerator will not work with
any other versions of PHP. eAccelerator can only be used with the thread-safe version of PHP.
• Latest stable version: 0.9.6 (2010-02-04)
• Status: Actively maintained
• Download link: (look for latest versions) http://eaccelerator.net/
• Official installation help: http://eaccelerator.net/wiki/InstallFromSource
ionCube PHP Accelerator
Launched in 2001, ionCube PHP Accelerator (PHPA) was the first freely available PHP performance solution to
match the performance of the commercial Zend Cache product and maximize the performance potential of PHP.
Created before ionCube Ltd. was founded and at a time when the performance of PHP was regarded as lackluster
when compared to other popular web programming languages, PHPA made accelerated PHP available to almost
everyone and showed that PHP need not be the laggard in the performance stakes. In response to early concerns
raised by Zeev Suraski of Zend Technologies about the effect that an open source rival might have on their
commercial alternative, the author of PHPA chose to keep the project closed source. Although closed source, the
availability of PHPA on a wide variety of platforms led to its extensive adoption world wide from small sites to