Make phpBB faster/liter by replacing dynamic strings with static one

[Shaban Sunal]

Well, you're right..that would be a big mess..in first place with the upgrading..so if someone wants to try..do it but not on a live forum...i've just "half" changed my mind because now i need to move phpBB in a subdomain lol!! so it took me an half hour to replace every string back to their respective dynamic strings..it's a huge change and i need to be sure it's for something i just saw that the CPU load remained the same..i don't know what to think..will look to see if it's for the string changing or because there was a bottleneck on the server :S i'll keep you updated ASAC!

[drathbun]

Testing for performance really needs to be done on an isolated system. When I was testing template changes (not what you're suggesting, something else) I had a server set up at my house that I used so that I knew I was the only one putting a load on the box. Anything else is probably hit and miss... and more miss than hit.

[igorw]

I remember discussing this optimization before. It would be quite easy to compile cached templates with the language baked in, one file per language. It's definitely something worth benchmarking, imo.

[imkingdavid]

I remember discussing this optimization before. It would be quite easy to compile cached templates with the language baked in, one file per language. It's definitely something worth benchmarking, imo.

IMO it's added disk usage for a potential slight performance increase. I am not aware of any recent complains as to the speed of page loading, so I'm not sure it is really necessary to go through the trouble unless there is a significant increase in performance.

[EXreaction]

A few KB, or even MB, what the additional caching may cost, is really not of any significance. Disks are cheap and are only going to get cheaper--and I don't think that anyone has any issues with disk space limitations besides those who allow many GB worth of uploads.

I would be quite interested to hear if there are measurable performance increases by more thorough caching, although I wouldn't expect much.

[Senky]

Hmm, include compiled language entries in cache seems interesting...

Really, disk space is much cheaper than CPU upgrade, so..maybe we should think little bit about it.