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Re:PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 6 - Released by cabirum on Friday March 08, 2013 @09:56AM (#5343727)
Besides opcode caching, APC provides shared key-value storage. I don't really see why they chose Zend over APC as a standard opcache. Also, they are incompatible and cannot run together.
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Re:PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 6 - Released by nikic on Friday March 08, 2013 @10:25AM (#5343883)
We will provide a separate extension (currently called "apcu") which contains only the user-cache part of APC. ZO+ and that extension together should behave the same way as APC currently does. This will actually work even better, because both components will be completely separate (the shared cache had fragmentation issues in APC.)

ZO+ was chosen over APC because it is more stable. ZO+ is (more or less) PHP 5.5 compatible already, whereas APC still tries to cope with 5.4 compatibility.

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Re:PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 6 - Released by Mahn on Friday March 08, 2013 @11:30AM (#5344241)
That's great, thanks for sharing.
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Re:PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 6 - Released by molukk on Friday March 08, 2013 @10:09AM (#5343794)
The RFC for including ZO+ outlines some possible reasons: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optimizerplus#advantages_of_optimiz...
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Re:PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 6 - Released by Mahn on Friday March 08, 2013 @10:11AM (#5343802)
That's why I asked, I really hope they ship APC within the core aswell if Zend Optimizer doesn't provide a data store. To be honest, I find the data store that APC provides way more important than opcode caching.
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