Performance team meeting summary 27 September 2022

Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Announcements

Focus group updates

Images

@adamsilverstein @mikeschroder

GitHub project

Feedback requested

Object Cache

@tillkruess @spacedmonkey

GitHub project

Feedback requested

Site Health

N/A

GitHub project

  • We’re seeking 1-2 POCs for this group; if you’re interested, please comment here or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
  • No updates

Feedback requested

Measurement

N/A

GitHub project

Feedback requested

JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/.

@aristath @sergiomdgomes

GitHub project

  • @aristath: No movement on the JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. front recently, so focusing on general performance improvements instead, including #56636#56637#56654 and just a few minutes ago #56666. The process I’ve been following is to basically run vanilla WP using Xdebug-profiling, examine the results using webgrind and try to reduce the amount of function calls – as well as their cost. Generally small tweaks, with relatively big benefits. Last week #55005 was also merged in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., so overall I believe WP 6.1 contains a lot of nice and impactful performance changes – as highlighted by all the updates from other folks above.

Feedback requested

Infrastructure

@flixos90

GitHub project

Feedback requested

Discussion: SQLite support

@spacedmonkey and @aristath

  • @spacedmonkey: Think this is a great idea and could be useful in core for running unit tests and for other projects like wordpress-wasm. Wonder if the performance team should help take on this problem, even if it is to review the solution and ensure that there’s no performance regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5..
  • @aristath: Understand that testing could be difficult, so currently converting it to work as a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party in this repository. Trying to convert to something that would make sense for core and then publish in the .org repo as a featured plugin. Hoping if this is in the form of the plugin, more people will test and provide feedback. Also noting that the initial proposal focused on small-to-medium sites, but there’s great potential for growth in other areas as well where large sites can take advantage of SQLite.
    • @spacedmonkey: I’ve forked hyperdb and run very large multisites, can provide context here
    • @aristath: We’ll need lots of context once we get rolling – the prospect of pairing SQLite and hyperdb is very exciting

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 11am EDT in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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