
Bware_cache is a new tool to speed up web applications written in php.

It works by caching inside the web server compiled php code (just before it's
executed) so that the next time the same script is called it is simply
restored, already compiled, from the cache with big savings in terms of execution time.

Caching and saving scripts at compile time can be a big performance win,
especially if your php script is complex and makes heavy use of libraries.

We needed something to speed up an application running on a very busy site so we wrote it; 
it's still beta code that can probably be optimized more (especially regarding memory consumption)
but we use it daily for serving contents on very busy web sites and are very happy with it.

As of today this module is known to work with apache-1.3.x and php-4.0.3pl1.

We want to release it in the public domain to let other people
look at it, try it and give us some feedback. So feel free to download and improve it.
You are encouraged to test and use this software and send your
opinions and/or bug reports to bwc@bware.it.

Happy hacking, Bware Technologies.
