I was considering memcache and APC/EA/XCache for a single server and believe that network cache should be slower, but how much. I’m glad to found this benchmark.

… on advanced cache control methods and functionality. I use both APC and Memcached combined. I use each where they will be most…

If you have multiple webservers, then local APC caches aren’t going to cut it. Request will be … server so you’ll end up w/ more cache misses. Memcached solves this problem since it is distributed.

…Memcached is slower than local caches such as APC cache since it is distributed.  However, it has the …

[...] time around, I’m being proactive about caching in my code. From what I’ve read APC has the best performance in terms of object level caching, but Memcache is built with a [...]

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….9395694 File Cache Time: 1769136 Gets/Sec: 56524.7668919 Memcached Cache Time: 3515025 Gets/Sec: 28449.2997916 I use APC with mmaped

… 3 . apc Cache Time: 536591 Gets/Sec: 186361.679566 4 . File Cache Time: 1765141 Gets/Sec: 56652.6979998 5 . Memcached Cache Time…