On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Mark Clements
(HappyDog)
<gmane(a)kennel17.co.uk> wrote:
Is there a noticeable performance difference
between the two methods if
memcached is not available? Obviously this is not applicable to WMF wikis,
but I imagine the majority of wikis run without any external caching (beyond
whatever is present in MW itself).
In this case, going to the database is drastically slower. On the
other hand, you have to go to the database anyway, because you don't
know if the message exists in the database without querying it. So
there's probably no big difference in this case either.
Also note that by
default, the objectcache table in the database will be
used to cache messages in.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)