Gregory Maxwell wrote:
As far as load goes, it's only a question of
implementation.
A few months back I posted some example performance data for
intersections using inverted indexing using the actual enwiki category
data:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2006-September/026715.h…
Even the most evil cases (intersecting two huge categories) ran very
quickly. (For example the intersection of GFDL images and
living_persons each which has over 100,000 members took 25ms).
I'm with you, just reporting past flamage on the subject. I wouldn't
even count on empirical data having much effect... 1/2 :-)
Stan