One of the biggest “improvements” that Mozilla claims has made its way into Firefox 3 is improved memory usage, in particular, the vanquishing of memory leaks:
Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an [...]
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Firefox 3 is Still a Memory Hog
Published by June 3rd, 2008 in Programming, Reviews, Security, Software 89 CommentsFile-Based Extension to the WordPress Object Cache
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Software 6 CommentsWordPress 2.5 has just been released, and has users are quickly finding out, file-based object caching has been removed from this release.
We’ve just released another extension to the WordPress object cache mechanism, supplementing our existing plugins for adding eAccelerator and XCache support to WordPress’s object caching features.
NeoSmart Technologies’ File-Based object caching extension for WordPress re-implements [...]
WordPress, PerformancePress, and GSoC 2008
Published by March 22nd, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Software 7 CommentsFor those of you that haven’t yet heard, WordPress is once-more taking part in the Google Summer of Code. Google Summer of Code 2008 is a Google-sponsored program where college students are encouraged to contribute to their favorite open-source projects for a summer, and in exchange both they and their mentors receive some monetary compensation/motivation [...]
Caching and Why We Need It
Ever since the creation of interpreted languages and the birth of dynamic web content, developers have been on the lookout for tools, workarounds, and extensions in search of a solution for a solution to bring maximum performance to the world of dynamically-generated web pages.
Perhaps the simplest, most straight-forward, and most [...]
Getting WordPress Super Cache to Run on a Windows (IIS or Apache) Server
Published by November 8th, 2007 in Guides, Software 10 CommentsIf you’re a regular reader, you probably know by now that we just love performance and can’t get enough of server performance-improving software/code… Especially when it comes to WordPress.
Donncha has recently released a great plugin for WordPress, called "WordPress Super Cache." It builds on the original WP-Cache plugin by Ricardo Granada - except that it [...]
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