eAccelerator has released on 2008/05/18 its latest stable version 0.9.5.3 that brings the following changes (from the changelog):

“Changes in this version (from 0.9.5.2):

• Add patch from ticket 232: removes an unlock that isn’t needed there.”

Here is the full release information and download link: http://eaccelerator.net/wiki/Release-0.9.5.3

PHP Accelerators/Cachers will boost the performance of your PHP applications, by caching the compiled form of php scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling the code every time the page is loaded. A PHP accelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times. Normally you will install these in the form of a php extension.

This list contains all the php accelerator solutions available at this time, with a short description and some personal notes. When choosing a php accelerator for your site, you should evaluate:
- evaluate the speed improvement. Normally any php application will gain at least 100% in speed only by installing any php accelerator, but you should do your own benchmark to see if it is useful or not.
- look for any problems caused by this. Your application might break or crash randomly after installing a php accelerator. The current solutions look pretty stable, but still this might happen. Read the rest of this entry »

eAccelerator has released on 2006/10/11 its latest stable version 0.9.5 that brings the following changes (from the main changelog):

“Changes in this version (from 0.9.4):

• This version brings full php 5.1 support, which has as side-effect that eAccelerator won’t work anymore with php 4 on windows, but on other platforms this isn’t a problem.
• The shared memory functions, session handler and content cache are disabled by default now. They are only used by a small amount of users and they could allow local users to fill up the memory, if they aren’t secured properly.
• The old web control panel and the disassembler have been removed from the code. They have been replaced with a set of php functions that allow the same functionality to be implemented in a PHP script. The control.php and the dasm.php files are such scripts. More information about this can be found in the README.
• Memory footprint should be reduced because redundant information in the cached scripts is no longer stored. Keeping this information cached can be done with –with-eaccelerator-doc-comment-inclusion
• File hashing in the cache directory has been added to improve performance with a large amount of cache files.”

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