A [[wp:PHP_accelerator|PHP Acelerator]] is a tool that will enhance the performance of web applications written for the PHP scripting language. The free [http://php.net/apc Alternative PHP Cache] (APC) is distributed as a PEAR package.
[[Category:Applications]]
If you run your own LAMP server with PHP applications, then please install it. Assuming you already have Apache2 and PHP5 (with dev extensions so PECL can run phpize), it's as easy as
<source lang="bash">
# make sure we have the development headers and apxs2 binary for threaded versions of apache2
sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev
# install the APC extension
sudo pecl install APC
# pecl would have updated my php.ini file automatically, but it didn't know where to look.
