The fastest blog engine in PHP

ludo, Friday 01 April 2005 23:49:33 PST

I seems like LightPress (Luca suggested the new name since WordPress Fast Frontend was too long) is the fastest blog engine -- ehm front-end -- written in PHP. I am writing documentation for the first stable release, expect it to happen sometime soon.

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  1. jerome on 02 Apr 2005 at 01:48

    Very cool to see numbers that match my ad hoc comparisons. The new name is much easier to write too.

  2. Denis de Bernardy on 06 Apr 2005 at 01:39

    Out of curiosity, what would be the difference between LightPress and a WordPress install with staticize?

  3. jerome on 06 Apr 2005 at 02:13

    That wouldn’t be an apples-to-apples comparison since Staticize(-Reloaded) is really just a caching mechanism. LightPress doesn’t do caching yet but it may well be added in the future. I guess it would depend how much overhead WordPress has to go through before Staticize can do it’s thing.

    I’m sure if you ask nicely enough, Sencer might benchmark WordPress with Staticize for comparison purposes.

  4. jerome on 17 Apr 2005 at 02:40

    Denis, from the wp-hackers mailing list, it appears that you did convince Sencer! Staticize doubled WordPress performance in his benchmark, but that’s still slower than TextPattern and LightPress.

  5. Semiologic on 25 Apr 2005 at 23:34

    Struggling to optimize php/mysql performance News — After numerous trials and errors meant to increase the sucky performance of this web site, I installed wp-cache and I am testing a semi-static plugin based on Jerome’s new version of preformatted.

    I understand the end result is tons…