On Tuesday 23 July 2002 03:41 pm, LDC wrote:
Along those lines, I've had enough requests to restore the "show only new changes" feature, and that feature can actually speed up the database query, so I plan to put that back.
Coolness -- much thanks!
The tricky one is consolidating multiple edits to a page into one entry on the Recent Changes page, the way UseMod and Phase II did. This is a big performance hit. Perhaps a later redesign of the database would make it more reasonable, or perhaps a new implementation will come to mind that cures the problem, but for now I just don't want to burden the server with extra work for what is, to me, a cosmetic change that doesn't add functionality.
Please don't significantly compromise performance for cosmetics no matter what anybody says or pressures you to do (including me). I know I offered this idea as a feature request but my intent was to gain some of the article edit organization that the previous software had and I hadn't a clue about the performance hit you mention. But since you are going to reimplement "show only new changes to articles" I don't think the grouping feature would be worth any significant performance hit.
--mav