Which is faster/better for caching, File System or Memcached?

Question

I don\'t think it\'s clear to me yet, is it faster to read things from a file or from memcached? Why?

Answer 1

Cache Type | Cache Gets/sec
Array Cache | 365000
APC Cache | 98000
File Cache | 27000 Memcached Cache (TCP/IP) | 12200
MySQL Query Cache (TCP/IP) | 9900
MySQL Query Cache (Unix Socket) | 13500
Selecting from table (TCP/IP) | 5100
Selecting from table (Unix Socket) | 7400

Source:
https://surniaulula.com/os/unix/memcached-vs-disk-cache/

Source of my source :)
https://www.percona.com/blog/2006/08/09/cache-performance-comparison/