Show HN: BookPress, a WordPress core in C/C++ (Live Demo)
BookPress renders WooCommerce and Elementor pages faster than a well-tuned WordPress setup. Same themes, same admin, same URLs.
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Since ~40% of all websites supposedly still run on WordPress (WP), I thought it might be useful to run it faster. BookPress is about 50% faster than a performance-tuned WP setup with Elementor and WooCommerce.
Every time I used WordPress in the past, I got frustrated how slow it was, even with just a few plugins. So I wrote an light-weight C/C++ core and an embeddable PHP engine to run plugins and themes, with most of the WP API surface covered.
Try the live demo, including wp-admin!
The embeddable PHP runtime that covers most of Zend PHP's features runs 2x slower than Zend, but BookPress is still faster than a performance-tuned WP instance with OPCache, page cache and object caches.
BookPress runs alongside a traditional WP installation on Linux arm64 and x86_64.
Looking forward to what you all think.
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