Posts tagged WinCache
Podcast on Running PHP on Windows
Jun 11th
Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-training Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. I met Peter in Chicago during Tek-X and we along with Don and Wade recorded a podcast on evolution of PHP on the Windows Platform. We talked about the improvements made to Windows in order to support PHP, [...]
WordPress widget to show WinCache statistics
May 28th
Ruslan (http://ruslany.net), who is Program Manager for WinCache project, has been showing WinCache statistics on the right sidebar of his website for quite some time. Few weeks ago I decided to do the same but instead of editing theme source code and add the information there, I decided to write a standalone wordpress widget. Two [...]
What’s new in WinCache 1.1 Beta2 and what’s next
May 4th
After WinCache 1.0 release, two most requested features were user cache and session cache. We added both of these features in WinCache 1.1 beta1. We are very happy with the rate of adoption of user cache by PHP application developers. Many application developers have already added support for WinCache user cache in their applications and [...]
Comparing WinCache user cache APIs with other caches
Mar 29th
WinCache 1.1 beta release added two new major features to WinCache. These are user cache APIs which can be used to store custom data in the cache and “wincache” session handler. User cache APIs was the biggest feature gap WinCache 1.0 had compared to other caching solutions which are frequently used on Linux. WinCache 1.1 [...]
Inconsistencies in wincache statistics page explained
Jan 27th
Problem description Many customers running WinCache reported seeing different cache statistics on consecutive requests to wincache.php. Specifically, cache uptime and opcode cache summary returned second time by wincache.php was completely different than the data returned first time. Occasionally data shown in the opcode cache summary table didn’t match the chart displayed on its side. [...]
Feature additions and bug fixes coming up in WinCache
Oct 5th
We are seeing huge momentum behind adoption of WinCache. In the month of September, WinCache v1 Beta was downloaded more than 13,000 times making it one of the most downloaded IIS extensions in the first month following its release. Many happy customers chose to run it on their production servers despite its beta tag. We got very encouraging feedback from the beta release and we are pushing hard for our next release. Our next release date is approaching fast and I wanted to give an update on new features and bug fixes.
How WinCache make PHP run faster
Sep 19th
Why WinCache?
Use of PHP accelerators is very common to make PHP run faster. Most of the existing PHP accelerators which are in use today are designed keeping *nix architecture in mind and mostly doesn’t work well on Windows. For example, APC which is very commonly used on *nix doesn’t work on Windows.