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12/31/2014

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BY ORI LIVNEH ON DECEMBER 29TH, 2014

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Wiki used to mean fast

The creator of the wiki, Ward Cunningham,
wanted to make it fast and easy to edit web
pages. Cunningham named his software after
a Hawaiian word for quick. Thats why the
From: Lorrin Andrews, A Dictionary of the
Wikimedia Foundation is happy to report that
Hawaiian language, to which is appended an
editing Wikipedia is now twice as quick. Over
English-Hawaiian vocabulary and a chronological
the last six months we deployed a new
table of remarkable events. Printed by Henry M.
Whitney, Honolulu H.I., 1865. (Via Google Books)
technology that speeds up MediaWiki,
Wikipedias underlying PHP-based
code. HipHop Virtual Machine, or
Contents:
HHVM, reduces the median pageWiki used to mean fast
saving time for editors from about
Speed matters
7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds, and the
mean page-saving time from about 6
to 3 seconds. Below, Ill explain the
technical background for HHVM on
MediaWiki and some of the farreaching benefits of this change that
will go beyond the recent
performance gains.

How keeping Wikipedia fast meant

slowing Wikipedia down
How HHVM addresses this
problem
What we have already gained by
switching to HHVM
How we made the switch
Other advantages of HHVM, and its
future potential

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