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Launched in 2001, '''ionCube PHP Accelerator (PHPA)''' was the first freely available PHP accelerator to compete with the commercial Zend Cache product. Created before [[Ioncube|ionCube Ltd.]] was founded and at a time when the performance of PHP was regarded as lackluster when compared to other popular web programming languages,{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} PHPA showed that PHP can compete with other languages performance-wise.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} Although the author of PHPA chose to keep the project closed source in response to early concerns raised by Zeev Suraski of [[Zend Technologies]] about the effect that an open source rival might have on their commercial alternative, the availability of PHPA on a wide variety of platforms led to its extensive adoption worldwide from small sites to Yahoo!.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} It also inspired the redevelopment of APC to use the shared memory execution techniques that PHPA and Zend Cache had adopted instead of deserialization on each request that incurred performance penalties.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}}
As for now it is available as try & buy software supporting PHP up to version 7.1.
* ''Website:'' http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk / http://www.ioncube.com
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