If you've been looking for a way to make your PHP scripts work faster than ever before, chances are, you've stumbled across the PHP Accelerator - a free PHP script enhancer that promises 5 times speed gain on most scripts (near 10 on Smarty-enhanced pages).

Well, as all good projects have, the PHP Accelerator project has a leader - Nick Lindrige, the "father" of the project (as well as the PHP Encoder), has a new interview over on the usephp.net site. Basically, it's just an overview of the project and why he did it, with a few questions later on about the PHP Encoder and it's role in the PHP world.

My favorite quote: If PHP Accelerator is someday bundled within PHP, it will kill the accelerator Market. Do you think PHP should keep space for paying services like that?

But, you'll need to read on for the answer....