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Show HN: nocopy – An APCu-compatible PHP extension with zero-copy reads

https://github.com/chrfritsch/nocopy

I built nocopy to show how much performance we leave on the table in current PHP applications. APCu copies each value into the request on every read, and nocopy hands over the shared value itself. It is thoroughly tested and benchmarked, but currently completely lacks production use.Disclosure: Opus wrote all the code. I drove the direction.

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