Brion- Hmz, how do we measure "big difference"? Wikipedia has been everything from "dog slow" to "super fast" since this announcement, but that's about the usual. I don't believe one SELECT to a small table on each pageview matters much, but then again, I still don't understand all the locking issues which we seem to have. Remember the orders-of-magnitude increase in speed after we switched the searchindex to a static copy? Yet I don't really see why it ended up being locked so much. Presently I see locking issues and very slow rendering of long pages (IMHO still caused by the link checking process, but I haven't validated that theory) as the two main causes of our dismal performance (that, and the fact that people like us too damn much). I had hoped that Tim's links update fix would make a big difference, but it turns out that saving long pages is still slow because they are also *displayed* after saving them, and it's the displaying itself that is slow. I don't really know how much of an impact the current 2394^34 pass parser has on the performance on Larousse, but I wouldn't rule that out as a cause of headaches either. Regards, Erik