Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-13 Thread Strainu
2015-06-12 18:47 GMT+03:00 Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, And good news it is :) Thanks Ori :) were people of the WMF involved in this ? It's not that Ori learned about these news by reading Twitter. ;)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-13 Thread James HK
Hi, order to have other features work). This is a risky path for the open source MediaWiki though, as sooner or later I expect some announcement that MW will only work on HHVM, which would be a pity. An interesting thought that may not be appreciated or shared by all third-party users or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, And good news it is :) Thanks Ori :) were people of the WMF involved in this ? Thanks, GerardM On 12 June 2015 at 06:08, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: a parse of the Barack Obama article. A parse of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-12 Thread Alex Monk
I found https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217157/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/97110/1 On 12 June 2015 at 13:01, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: At the very least, someone from WMF suggested the page: MediaWiki was benchmarked using the Barack Obama page from Wikipedia, as was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-12 Thread Strainu
At the very least, someone from WMF suggested the page: MediaWiki was benchmarked using the Barack Obama page from Wikipedia, as was recommended by an engineer from Wikimedia foundation as representative of their load. A better question IMO is: have the FB engineers contributed any patches to MW?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-12 Thread Quim Gil
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, And good news it is :) Thanks Ori :) were people of the WMF involved in this ? It's not that Ori learned about these news by reading Twitter. ;) Tim Starling got dozens of patches merged in HHVM as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-11 Thread Ori Livneh
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: a parse of the Barack Obama article. A parse of *English Wikipedia's* Barack Obama article. I am trying, I am trying... :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-11 Thread Ori Livneh
Facebook's HHVM team just completed their first performance lockdown, which they spent focusing on the performance of open-source PHP frameworks under HHVM. The achievement which they chose to highlight in their blog posts is a gain of 19% in their MediaWiki performance benchmark, which is – you