MediaWiki caches the result of templates called with no parameters, but not if they are called with parameters, so there would be a small performance benefit to splitting the template. However, [1] also comes into play here, so unless it'd be just as convenient to have the second template, or you're sure there's problems with performance that you're hoping this would solve, I wouldn't bother.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_worry_about_performance On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Hallo, > > The second most popular tempate in the Hebrew Wikipedia is one that inserts > the rlm character[1]. It has an optional parameter. If it's used, it > inserts the lrm character instead. The condition runs in every > transclusion. > > Running a condition every time seems to me like an unnecessary thing, > especially that the parameter is (probably) not used most of the time. It > could be avoided by replacing all the instances where that parameter is > used by another template that simply inserts the lrm. But maybe it's not > actually needed because MediaWiki's caching avoids the performance problem? > > I'm not much of a performance person, so I'd like the experts' opinion. > > Thanks. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
