| Joe added a comment. |
In T212189#4840039, @WMDE-leszek wrote:To avoid misunderstandings: I was not questioning MediaWiki's action API being performant. By "lightweight" I was referring to "PHP has high startup time" point @daniel made above as one of the reason why no service should call MW API.
I read @daniel's comment as "why do that costly operation several times instead of doing it once", which makes sense to me. Also sorry if I came across a bit strong, but there has been a lot of FUD spread on the topic of MW API performance, and I wanted to dispel that myth :)
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