PEAR Cache_Lite vs the Alternative PHP Cache (APC) Results

To test PEAR Cache_Lite vs the Alternate PHP Cache (APC) we benchmarked the cache write and cache read speed of both products.

Using the source HTML of three websites* we ran 10 sets of 100 cache writes/reads.

Test 1

PCL Read:	0.51184113
PCL Write:	0.51111087
APC Read:	0.51217119
APC Write:	0.51131264

APC faster: 0.00053183 s difference

Test 2

l Read:	0.51026285
PCL Write:	0.50957098
APC Read:	0.51036641
APC Write:	0.5097728

APC faster: 0.00030538 s difference

Test 3

PCL Read:	0.51477005
PCL Write:	0.51409317
APC Read:	0.5148693
APC Write:	0.51429797

APC faster: 0.00030405 s difference

Test 4

PCL Read:	0.50122613
PCL Write:	0.50274539
APC Read:	0.49866188
APC Write:	0.50025306

PCL faster: 0.00505658 s difference

Test 5

PCL Read:	0.47731436
PCL Write:	0.47628684
APC Read:	0.47765029
APC Write:	0.47654489

APC faster: 0.00059398 s difference

Test 6

PCL Read:	0.50689836
PCL Write:	0.50544806
APC Read:	0.50700731
APC Write:	0.50639346

APC faster: 0.00105435 s difference

Test 7

PCL Read:	0.46756809
PCL Write:	0.47349056
APC Read:	0.46769236
APC Write:	0.47035543

PCL faster: 0.00301086 s difference

Test 8

PCL Read:	0.66712422
PCL Write:	0.66926864
APC Read:	0.66803365
APC Write:	0.66968434

APC faster: 0.00132513 s difference

Test 9

PCL Read:	0.52493462
PCL Write:	0.52408631
APC Read:	0.52521311
APC Write:	0.52435288

APC faster: 0.00054506 s difference

Test 10

PCL Read:	0.42504285
PCL Write:	0.42412659
APC Read:	0.42514227
APC Write:	0.42456178

APC faster: 0.00053461 s difference

* Yahoo, Yahoo Developer > PHP : Cache Yahoo! Web Service REST Calls and Google