Tim Starling wrote:
> On 12/01/11 05:34, Casey Brown wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Alex Brollo <alex.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm already using your suggestion, today I replaced a complex test template
>>> from our village pump (replacing it with a link to a subpage, visited by
>>> interested users only) and, really, the difference in rendering the page
>>> village pump page was obviuos.
>>
>> That's good, but also keep in mind that, generally, you shouldn't
>> worry too much about performance:
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PERF>. (Had to throw in the little
>> disclaimer here. ;-))
>
> I've always been opposed to that policy.
As the person who implemented the expensive parser function count, I don't
imagine anyone on this list finds your opposition surprising. I do find the
view that users ought to be concerned about accidentally using too many
{{#ifexist:}}s or {{PAGESIZE:}}s on a page (for example) to be a horrible
approach to user experience, though.
MZMcBride
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