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Seva Alekseyev
Seva Alekseyev

Reputation: 61361

What's APC alternative to?

APC (as in https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php) stands for Alternative PHP Cache. What is it alternative to - is there another, built-in caching framework in PHP?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2809

Answers (4)

SandroMarques
SandroMarques

Reputation: 6534

OPcache is the alternative and it's available since PHP 5.5

http://php.net/manual/en/book.opcache.php

Upvotes: 0

Nev Stokes
Nev Stokes

Reputation: 9779

An alternative to not using one at all?

Seriously though, maybe as an alternative to eAccelerator and Xcache?

Also see: apc vs eaccelerator vs xcache

Upvotes: 0

ircmaxell
ircmaxell

Reputation: 165201

There is no built-in OP-Code or variable cache built in. But there are a number of alternatives...

I believe it was an alternative to the proprietary (and commercial) Zend Cache which was around in the late '90s and early 2000's. There are a number of different accelerators out there now (each with their own advantages and disadvantages), but in the early 2000's, the main one was Zend Cache. So I would assume (the time scales look right) that APC was meant to be an alternative to Zend Cache (an open source and free alternative)...

Upvotes: 3

AlexV
AlexV

Reputation: 23098

Memcached is also widespread.

Also see this List of PHP accelerators which speak of:

  • Alternative PHP Cache
  • eAccelerator
  • ionCube PHP Accelerator
  • Turck MMCache
  • XCache
  • Nusphere PhpExpress
  • Zend Accelerator
  • Zend Platform
  • Windows Cache Extension for PHP

Upvotes: 2

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