cache, opcode, PHP, require_once, slowIf you got a large OO PHP application, you usually come with many files included using “require_once()”. Different test from different sources shows that using require_once works up to 4 times slower than require. Basically, all known PHP opcode caches suffers from this issue (APC, XCache, ea/mmcache).
There’s patches committed in APC that [...]
php cache apc autoload The Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free and open opcode cache for PHP. It was conceived of to provide a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.
Many developers writing object-oriented applications create one PHP source file per-class definition. Using __autoload() helps to overcome one of [...]
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