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Explore: Compiling Blueprints to independent PHP files
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Description
Executing Blueprint steps often involves spawning subprocesses, e.g. to activate a WordPress plugin in an independent environment that can crash without crashing the main PHP process.
However, in runtime like Playground, spawning a PHP sub-process might be expensive as it would require allocating twice the HEAP inside the browser and potentially require downloading PHP.wasm again.
Let's test the performance of in-browser sub-processes, and if it's bad, then Blueprints could be compiled as follows:
- Run PHP to turn a Blueprint into a series of smaller PHP files like
step0.php,step1.phpetc. - Each file is an isolated container and is free to, e.g., include
wp-load.php - TypeScript runtime would run those files one by one. The PHP runtime would do the same thing.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by benchmarking in-browser PHP subprocesses, focusing on the cost of allocating another HEAP and downloading PHP.wasm again. If that approach performs poorly, evaluate compiling a Blueprint into isolated files such as step0.php and step1.php, then confirm that the TypeScript and PHP runtimes can execute them one by one.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, typescript
- Domain
- backend, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100