Not a stupid question. Yes, that would be faster. Using the API, however, is even better, and this is exactly what is done in the rewrite.
As such, I would suggest not to implement this in the trunk - the current version works, albeit slow. If this is really a problem for you, upgrade to the rewrite.

Best regards,
Merlijn van Deen

On 11 September 2010 16:47, Dr. Trigon <dr.trigon@surfeu.ch> wrote:
Hello

May be this is a stupid question but what about basing
'page.isRedirectPage()' on 'getVersionHistory(revCount=1)'
instead of 'get()' because this could be faster for big
pages...?

Thanks and Greetings!
DrTrigon

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