Sub second response times
So I have been implementing a couple of performance improvements across the codebase. RGB Daily is written in PHP, CSS/XHTML, and Javascript. I was able to speed up the performance on the client side by integrating Minify to serve us the CSS and Javascript. Processing on the server side was still taking around 2-3 seconds on average. It turns out that the bottleneck was the templating engine. There was a long standing bug which cleared previously loaded config constants when a new config file was appended. Consequently the main config file that was used in the application was reloaded after every sub module that makes up the page.
I refactored the code so that it only loads a single config file once per template instantiation. I will go further and cache the parsed config files to get even more speed gains. Localized files will only cost as much as a simple include.
Updates for 2008-07-16
- My post using seesmic seems to be corrupted. That’s no good
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Updates for 2008-07-02
- Wrapping up merging the last of the changesets from Moonrank. There is still some work left to be done, but we are almost there. #