Levels of Caching

Thu Feb 1 21:23:08 UTC 2007

On 1 Feb 2007, at 18:51, Reinis Rozitis wrote:

> I would avoid also Smarty.. There are a lot more and better  
> implementations of transparent opcode/content caches for php -  
> eaccelerator, APC, xcache, ioncube and also the commercial Zend  
> Platform/Core.

They are quite different things - Smarty's caches (it has two kinds)  
play directly to the strengths of PHP accelerators and in no way  
replaces them. Using Smarty without an accelerator is a pretty bad  
idea, but with one it's just great.

Marcus
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