On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Happy-melon happy-melon@live.com wrote: [snip]
It's not just that. On a technological level, considerable sections of the FlaggedRevs code are called on *every* page view, whether the page has FlaggedRevs behaviour or not. Even if it's eventually saying "no, carry on normally" in 99% of the cases, the question is still asked. And asked on every one of those six billion pageviews. When the answer is "yes, we need to do something special here", of course, the load that the FlaggedRevs
Completely hogwash.
The overwhelming majority of those "six billion pageviews" never touches mediawiki at all— they're satisfied out of the frontend caches.
Not that flaggedrevs doesn't have performance considerations, but you'd do well to keep the hyperbole down a notch.
...and it's not like we're talking about some extension which was only ever designed for tiny wikis (as many extensions are), dewp and enwp were always primary targets for this extension from inception.