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I recently noticed this interesting post regarding performance: https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/124/2380

So according to the OP, it seems like removing the references to Varien_Profiler in the Magento core files (around 500 references in 1.9.2.4) could speed up the performance by up to 5%

So I was wondering if anyone has ever done that ?

If so, apart from the command line the OP posted:

grep -l "Varien_Profiler" * -R > profiler.txt 
for x in `cat profiler.txt` 
do 
sed -i '/Varien_Profiler/s/^/\/\//' $x
done

Or as one of the comments say:

find . -type f -exec grep -qF 'Varien_Profiler' {} \; -exec sed -i '/Varien_Profiler/d' {} \;

Is there anything else that needs to be done ? The OP also said:

You might need to adjust the file /lib/Varien/Profiler.php manually afterwards.

Also, I was wondering apart from not being able to use the profiler, is there any downside to this operation ? I'm talking about possible code issues related to the profiler that could possibly break the system.

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  • this is indeed true. Varien_Profiler is a great tool while we developing a site. But it will indeed reduce performance since there is numerous amount of varien_profiler check in core magento. So removing it AFTER DEVELOPMENT stage has no downsides in my opinion. – Rajeev K Tomy Jun 10 '16 at 8:51
  • ... And I feel this question is off-topic since it is purely an opinion based. – Rajeev K Tomy Jun 10 '16 at 8:52
  • @RajeevKTomy have you ever done it ? Do you have some results to share ? I don't think it's opinion based it's a real coding question – Raphael at Digital Pianism Jun 10 '16 at 8:53
  • Yes I did that in my development environment when I found that answer a long time before and I saw improvements in performance.But It was lesser than 5% at that time. If I remember correctly, it was around 3-4%.But this figure will vary from site to site. Because core Magento holds some Varien_Profile check in entity/collection load.So more number of entity/collection load in site means more number of varien_profiler calls. So in those sites improvements will be much greater.For perfectly tuned sites (sites in which entity/collection load is min), removing varien_profiler won't make much diff – Rajeev K Tomy Jun 10 '16 at 9:00
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You can safely remove any reference to Varien_Profiler, nothing will break at least if you keep the profiler disabled in configuration.

  • The methods in Varien_Profiler do not have return values, except fetch and getSqlProfiler(), both are only used in Mage/Core/Block/Profiler.php to display results.

  • Except from the private state of Varien_Profiler, no methods of the class have side effects.

That being said, I don't believe it's worth the trouble and smells a lot like premature optimization. If the profiler is disabled (Varien_Profiler::disable()), all the methods return immediately.

Focus on the real bottlenecks instead, i.e. database and filesystem, not method calls that do nothing.

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    "Focus on the real bottlenecks instead, i.e. database and filesystem, not method calls that do nothing." - I've seen a lot of people trying to spend inordinate amount of time in trying to optimize in memory stuff when actually db calls and file system lookups kill you! – Paras Sood Jun 10 '16 at 11:35

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