[Wikipedia-l] what's being done about performance?

Fred Bauder fredbaud at ctelco.net
Fri Jul 12 13:15:46 UTC 2002


I agree, but still, with new software almost ready to go, serious digging
into what's wrong with the old softwear seems senseless. (Although one
might stumble on something).

Fred Bauder

At 03:14 PM 7/12/02 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Tim Chambers wrote:
>> I'm deeply saddened that Wikipedia is a victim of its own success,
>
>No, it is victim to poor architecture.  It's a software problem in the
>Wikipedia PHP source code.
>
>The developers seem totally clueless about performance issues. There is a
>constant focus on new functions, and none on performance and response
>times. They cannot even say what the average response time has been in the
>last week or 24 hours.  (Hey, prove me wrong: Tell me the average.)
>
>
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