WordPress 3.0 Compiled and Benchmarked

[Hui Chen]

Hi everyone,

After fixing a couple of things, I have successfully compiled WordPress 3.0 which was just released last week. All functions including multisite support are working as I have tested. Please read the article in following link on how to compile WordPress 3.0 in four easy steps:

http://huichen.org/en/2010/06/wordpress-three-hardened-by-hphp/

To prove it works, I have set up a test blog and you are welcome to log in and try playing with it:

http://test.huichen.org/
(Both username and password are 'test'. After logging in you will be redirected to the dashboard of sub-site http://test.huichen.org/test)

The compiled WordPress is about 40% faster than the PHP version. See the detail of my benchmark:

http://huichen.org/en/2010/06/wordpress-3-benchmark/

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Hui

[Scott MacVicar]

Awesome work, we fixed the problem with wp_reset_vars() last week to do with variable variable globals. Those should now work.

- S

[Hui Chen]

Thanks Scott, I saw dynamic global support was added to HPHP in the git log. You guys are really quick in adding new features. Good job!

br,
Hui

[Hui Chen]

Update:

I have done some new benchmarks of WordPress with a page caching plugin. This time HPHP gave even more impressive results.

With a page caching plugin, HPHPed WordPress has gained 2.7x speedup over PHP. Dynamic page generation of HPHP is super fast that its speed is more than a quarter of static content by Nginx.

Please read more details from

http://huichen.org/en/2010/06/wordpress-3-benchmark-part-2/

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Hui Chen
Graduate Research Assistant
Microelectronics Research Center
The University of Texas at Austin

[Roberto Innocenti]

I have done the same test (wordpress 3) with Apache 2.12 php 5.2.10 apc + Hyper Cache vs hiphop + Hyper Cache and hiphop is a little more slow than Lamp, don't unstand why.

Without Hyper Cache, hipop is 100% faster than Lamp.

Roberto

2010/6/25 Hui Chen <usa....@gmail.com>