Poor, Edmund W wrote:
If testing this new feature does NOT cause the servers to slow down
immediately, then there is no reason not to try it out. Someone had
claimed an immediate TRIPLING of access time, but Magnus says "I doubt
it will degrade performance in the initial phase", and I believe him.
Magnus is one of the three people whom we all trust the most at
Wikipedia. If he says there's no risk in a live test of a new feature,
then I say there's no risk.
Thanks :-)
I'd like to add that *if* I'm wrong about this, someone flip a switch in
LocalSettings to turn it off again. So, worst-case scenario is the
servers getting slow for a few minutes.
Magnus