From time to time I read that Fortran is or can be faster then C for heavy calculations. Is that really true? I must admit that I hardly know...
I’m building it from scratch and probably a 100 or so of those pages will be ecommerce. I would like to create meaningful, normal looking permalinks for aesthetics and...
A recent talk about unordered_map in C++ made me realize that I should use unordered_map for most cases where I used map before, because of the efficiency of lookup...
I’ve heard great things about HHVM, so I’ve setup a copy of WordPress blog (on another domain) with Nginx (with the Pagespeed module) and HHVM. Right now the benefits...
Are there any compelling performance reasons to choose static linking over dynamic linking or vice versa in certain situations? I’ve heard or read the following, but I don’t know...
I’m debugging a slow WordPress website, and saw this XDebug report from Webgrind: The majority of the processing is done by translation related functions. I would like to: A)...
If you were configuring a new VPS for a WP website that hasn’t launched yet, What technologies would you choose? (website specs below) Website Targeting 50-60k hits /mo. and...
Is there any difference between hooks posts_where with posts_join and posts_search performance wise?
I want to know which filter hook I should use that performs faster. I did try both several times and I noticed that posts_search is a bit faster than...
I am about to develop a piece of code for my site to display the most popular posts of the day that are X days old. I would like...
Let’s say I’ve already got the $post object through some earlier process of looping through an array of IDs and using get_post() on each one of them, storing the...