WordPress GSoC2008

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1. Lloyd Budd (15 comments.) says:

   3/12/2008 at 11:24 pm

   Thanks Jeffro2pt0. I submitted our application last Friday. We should find out on Monday if our application is accepted.

   I’m really hoping we are. I think our application is much stronger this year. Last year the results were great, but I think we are on a path to even even better ones this year!

   If someone is interesting in being a WordPress mentor please do contact me. Summer starts early again this year
2. Emily VanBuren says:

   3/13/2008 at 7:20 pm

   The project I’m most interested in has got to be “Performance” (as generic of an “idea” that may be).

   Totally anxious to see what the contributors-to-be and the mentor (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi according to the GSoC ’08 page) can cook up!

   People are always complaining that WP’s performance is pit-bottom; but that’s just because they haven’t seen just how bad other scripts like phpBB, Gallery2, etc. are… then again, it’d totally rock if this summer WP can over-take Drupal, Movable Type, and the rest when it comes to high performance!
3. Lloyd Budd (22 comments.) says:

   3/13/2008 at 7:51 pm

   Emily, your perspective about WordPress and performance, I don’t think is shared by most. What do you base it on?
4. Emily VanBuren says:

   3/13/2008 at 9:27 pm

   Which part of it, Lloyd? About it being bad performing or about it being better than phpBB and Gallery2?
5. Lloyd Budd (22 comments.) says:

   3/13/2008 at 9:31 pm

   That WordPress has bad performance.
6. Emily VanBuren says:

   3/13/2008 at 9:45 pm

   Well I recently became the admin of a server farm for a private company with a number of various web scripts in large quantities, and I found WordPress to be one of the bottlenecks.

   It’s plenty fast for normal operation; but if you’ve got lots of blogs or a blog with many visitors, it’s a bit of a problem.

   These benchmarks are the closest (ratio-wise) to what I’m seeing:
   http://www.iis-aid.com/article.....5_2_on_iis

   I know that benchmark was on Windows, but on our server farm WordPress is about the same performance distance away from Drupal and about that much better than Gallery2 (which is incredibly scary).
7. Lloyd Budd (22 comments.) says:

   3/13/2008 at 10:04 pm

   Emily, that is a very interesting result. I’m sure if you are able to publish in details the environment and measurements, then the community will step up with recommendations.

   “Performance tuning PHP 5.2 on IIS is an interesting article”, though the performance tuning there seems specifically focused only on PHP, and only on IIS. An important, but incomplete equation.
8. Emily VanBurne says:

   3/15/2008 at 4:13 pm

   Lloyd, does this mean that in your *completely frank* opinion, WP outperforms Drupal, et. al. in benchmarks?
9. Lloyd Budd (22 comments.) says:

   3/16/2008 at 1:45 am

   Emily sorry, what benchmarks are you referring to?
10. Emily VanBuren says:

    3/17/2008 at 12:08 am

    I meant that under generic stress/load-testing, do you believe that WP is faster (i.e. more req/sec) than Drupal & co.?

    I admit, I’ve only recently foraged into the performance sector, but what my recent experience has shown is that WP is significantly slower than some of the other popular CMS/Blog scripts/engines out there on the market.
11. Lloyd Budd (22 comments.) says:

    3/17/2008 at 12:31 am

    Hi Emily, I think that brings the conversation full circle. I’m sure if you are able to publish in details the environment and measurements, then the community will step up with recommendations.
12. Lloyd Budd (22 comments.) says:

    3/17/2008 at 2:18 am

    Just received the email letting us know that WordPress has been accepted into GSoC 2008!
13. Mark Ghosh (386 comments.) says:

    3/17/2008 at 2:53 am

    Very nice, I am looking forward to this years’ participation.
14. Yeni Diziler (1 comments.) says:

    10/13/2010 at 6:45 pm

    Lloyd Budd sorry, what benchmarks are you referring to?