Translations:Manual:Running MediaWiki on Windows/17/en


 * Texvc (needed for rendering Math formulas)
 * PHP optimizing software (Zend Optimizer). Cleans up compiled PHP code to make it run 50-100% more efficiently.
 * PHP caching software such as [$accelerator eAccelerator]. Saves the compiled PHP for future use, so it doesn't need to be recompiled, speeding up execution by 100x or so.
 * Image processing software (ImageMagick or GD). Used for format conversion and thumbnails. GD nowdays comes included in PHP for Windows
 * Web page caching software (Squid). Used to store rendered pages for re-use.