Posted by Jason Barnett on 01/06/05 21:01

>
> What you are talking about is opcode caching. While it certainly speeds
> things up, it can be done much faster. When you cache a file that
> contains a large PHP array definition, all you are caching are the
> instructions to create that array. On every request these instructions
> need to be loaded from shared memory and executed in order to recreate
> the array. This can be quite slow. What we are discussing here are
> ways to avoid recreating the array on every request which is quite
> different.
>
> -Rasmus

Wow. I've learned things in this newsgroup, but today's discussion has
been particularly enlightening. Thank you professors Rasmus, Richard
and William. :)


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