On 02/06/2013 03:53 AM, Petr Bena wrote:
don't merge anything into core pls. rip the stuff
out of core and make
extensions from them, and finally, please make core a lightweight and faster
The speed of MediaWiki isn't directly related to the amount of code in
core. Speed is all about keeping the average code path to execute any
given request short.
Thus, we can ship more extensions and languages with MediaWiki without
affecting anything but the download size of the tarball and the amount
of space that MediaWiki takes up on disk.
This doesn't mean we shouldn't care about size -- I think there is some
merit to the idea of shipping a minimal MediaWiki. With the
availability of Composer and extension installers, we're beginning to
bootstrap our way to a good way for the end user to add on to xyr
MediaWiki installation.
But "faster MediaWiki" isn't an argument against bundling code.
Mark
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