[Mediawiki-l] Alternative PHP Cache and benchmarking

[Jeremy Milum]

Has anyone used Alternative PHP Cache:

http://pecl.php.net/package/APC 

with mediawiki?

I just installed it on a wiki and noticed about a 30% improvement
on serving the Main page.  Also, what utilites are you using for
benchmarking speed optimizations?  I just wrote a simple script
to parse the returned Main page for the "Served by" line and
used the time reported there.  Is this legit?