Benchmarking developer operations // speed up development!

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Posted by OnkelTem on June 27, 2012 at 11:01am

Hello!

Having a pretty old laptop as my primary development workstation, I'm very concerned about development speed. Under development process I mean the most frequent operations you do when making a website, like:

installing and configuring modules
creating and configuring entities (nodes, products) and fields
theme development

While measuring and boosting performance of Drupal websites for users, engaging different techniques and tools to speedup things for anonymouses, nobody seems to think about ourselves - the developers. At that, InnoDB, which was adopted as the default database engine for MySQL DB backend, seems to be no good at all.

Please read this post: http://drupal.org/node/1661608

What do I mean is the database usage when in development differs from the usage when in production; therefore tuning practices are different.

I suggest to share practices you use to speedup development.

So my first cents: switching back to MyISAM might and would probably bring noticeable performance boost in development process. In my case, it speedups things for about 100-200%.

Comments are welcome!

best
Artiom

P.S. After saving this post I felt unease about the subject is not coherent with the body. Well, sorry for that. I had been looking for some benchmarking tools which would help me to verify my assumption on MyISAM dwarfing the InnoDB, when found this group. Unfortunately I didn't find any descriptions of approaches on how to measure Drupal administrative UI. If you know one, please share.