I thought that I had posted this question earlier today, but apparently I have not.
Is anyone using Alternative PHP Cache ? I have been under the perhaps mistaken impression that this is a beta PECL module but looking now the docs say nothing about beta. They also say little about what it actually does. Am I to understand that this extension/module caches PHP byte code? The docs describe all manner of functions provided by this extension but don't say much about it caching byte code. From what I can tell it looks a lot like memcache and to install it might not help if the PHP code in your system doesn't make use of the various functions it provides -- unless of course it does actually cache byte code.