opcache

I run a few PHP based applications which require background jobs, and I use the usual crond via crontab to run the jobs. PHP has an excellent feature – OpCache which can cache the compiled code in memory to speed up the web applications, where typically the PHP-FPM process is a long running process so the compiled code can be fetched on next request. But with CLI applications there is no shared state or memory to store the compiled code.

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