There was a GHOP task that did that already. It identified two key slow points: The bootstrap and the theme system. Bootstrap is being worked on with the Registry patch[1]. I'm not aware of anyone working on speeding up the theme system, but it's a very deep pipeline so there's no one place where things are slow. (This is according to the profiling done by the GHOP task.) I don't think "make Drupal faster" is really a SoC-sized task. It's more DROP-ish, since it would have to be targeted. [1] http://drupal.org/node/221964 On Friday 04 April 2008, Ashraf Amayreh wrote:
Well, forgot this is only for students. Idea is still valid, and I'm willing to help mentor it.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Ashraf Amayreh <mistknight@gmail.com> wrote:
Would a SOC proposal to do a performance analysis on drupal, identify bottlenecks, suggest performance improving tactics and perhaps actually submit code or refactor existing code to speed up drupal be welcome?
I'm very interested in streamlining drupal to the limits. I know I've seen a couple of people interested in this topic before, including Karloy, but not sure if anything was already submitted or how welcome such an idea would be. I'd also need mentors for this.
I've used Zend profiler to profile PHP applications and it's amazing, although I'm sure there are many other options as well.
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