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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l