while setting up mediawiki on my local development machine, the installer told me that since i do not have PECL extension to php installed, i will have to do with slower page load speeds with traditional php page loading.

Does PECL really increase page load speeds?

How do i install it on my Ubuntu LAMP server?


Question: Would it be a problem if all Amazon links were converted to affiliate links?
Answer: I don't see this being a problem as long as terms &amp; conditions say that if anyone posts their own Amazon affiliate links they will be transformed to Stack Overflow links.