On 23/12/2007, Agon S. Buchholz asb@kefk.net wrote:
The general idea was to relieve MediaWiki from generating dynamic pages all over again to free server resources for other tasks. I've never thought I'd need something like APC for my (small) site, but I'll check this out.
Mediawiki has the power of a tank and the durability of a tank, with the gas mileage of a tank ;-)
PHP is sometimes not such an efficient use of server resources and caching is a good idea. I even run wpcache on my tiny WordPress blog.
- d.