Tag Archives: Performance

Rasums Lerdorf on PHP Performance – Focus on WordPress.

Posted on 9 Sep 2010 by hakre

Rasums Lerdorf, birth giving father of PHP, had a presentation back in July this year at the Digg office on PHP performance optimization in San Francisco. The slides “PHP Performance – Hacker Dojo” (29 July 2010) are available online. Next … Continue reading →

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PHP: Compare vs. Calculating (1/2)

Posted on 7 Aug 2010 by hakre

This speed comparison test I’ve made is not of that much interest, but it shows somehow when / how optimization takes place. Those “performance” test are most likely not that valuable for optimizations but to better know the language. I … Continue reading →

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PHP: Casting vs. intval()

Posted on 13 May 2010 by hakre

Doing a cast like (int) $var instead of the intval($var) function is about 300% to 650% faster. I did some tests out of curiousity in #13317 and those are the results:

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Nginx front-end proxy cache for WordPress

Posted on 9 Apr 2010 by hakre

A how-to by Dan Collis-Puro “geek of all trades” on optimizing your WordPress MU install, using Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress: We put an nginx caching proxy server in front of our wordpress mu install and sped … Continue reading →

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References to the Max

Posted on 18 Feb 2010 by hakre

It’s somehow hard to understand. PHP Variables and how they do References to the according data. This Blog post is a collection of articles related to the topic and a short review of those I found valuable. Maybe there are … Continue reading →

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