I have historically used a monolithic approach to PHP coding. That is, I write one index.php, with an average size of 70k-250k, and use mod_rewrite to turn the rest of the REQUEST_URI int...

I've searched all over the web for documentation including on the XCache website. I'm new to PHP opcode caching and XCache. I'd like an explanation of how XCache works. I know that it stores compi...

How would I use the apc.filters parameter in APC opcode caching to not cache certain paths? For example, I want caching to be active for anything under the path: "/var/www/vhosts" and exclude pat...

Im doing research on which one of these to use and I can't really find one that stands out. Eaccelerator is faster than APC, but APC is better maintained. Xcache is faster but the others have easie...

Internet has a lot of discussions that calling apc_cache_clear() in CLI does not clear opcode caches from "web" PHP processes, whether they are run inside Apache or by FPM (see How to clear APC cac...

here is a link to how my APC is running : [removed] As you can see, it fills up pretty quickly and my Cache Full Count goes over 1000 sometimes My website uses Wordpress. I notice that every tim...

A number of frameworks utilize spl_autoload_register() for dynamically loading classes (i.e. controllers and models). There are a couple of posts on the issue of autoloading and opcode caching. One...

What are "Hits & Misses" in reference to APC opcode caching? I've installed APC and it's running great, but I've got "some" misses and I'm wondering if that's "bad". Also, I am running Openx an...

Sorry if this is basic, I am trying to learn as much as I can about OO in PHP and I am slowly learning how to use it (very limited). So I am wanting to know if __autoload() has any affect on PHP ...

Optimization of PHP code via runtime benchmarking is straight forward. Keep track of $start and $end times via microtime() around a code block - I am not looking for an answer that involves microti...