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Speed up bulk processes by rewriting with Rust #178

Open tronicboy1 opened 1 year ago

tronicboy1 commented 1 year ago

Hi!

Thank you all for your contributions.

Suggestion

Rewrite some core operations in Rust to improve speed of the WP CLI.

Benefits

Improved speed from use of machine code
Improved stability in memory intensive operations

Problems

Lack of contributors with knowledge in Rust?
Difficulties integrating with current code base?

First steps

Advise on what areas of WP CLI need performance improvements
Devise benchmark tests to see if changes actually improve speed

danielbachhuber commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion, @tronicboy1 !

Given WP-CLI interacts directly with WordPress and WordPress requires PHP, I think we're unlikely to rewrite any parts of WP-CLI to Rust in the near future.

With that being said, you might be interested in one such take at a faster implementation on one of WP-CLI's core processes: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-search-replace

If you'd like to try something similar, we'd love to hear about any progress you make.

tronicboy1 commented 1 year ago

@danielbachhuber Hi Daniel, thanks for the response!

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I didn't know we also used node in the CLI!