Today we’ve been hacking in the woods as part of the MidCOM Performance Sprint. Together with yesterday’s bug day this has resulted in quite a few commits.

While results obviously were not as dramatic as the last time due to better overall status of the code, we still scored about 20% reduction in database I/O and debug log lines dropping from over 700 to a more readable 103 per regular, fully debugged request. Memory usage should be much better now as well.

Focus areas today were:

• Switching from Query Builder to Collector where possible
• Switching from Prototype to jQuery in many bundled AJAX tools
• New access control for enabling/disabling AJAX features
• Smart windowing for Query Builder queries
• Refactoring the URL parser subsystem
• Removal of MidCOM 2.4 AIS classes
• Removal of several legacy libraries
• Simplification of some class inheritance chains

Thanks to everybody involved!