On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:59 AM, soxred93 soxred93@gmail.com wrote:
Just butting in here, if I recall correctly, both the PHP-native mb_strlen() and the MediaWiki fallback mb_strlen() functions are considerably slower (1.5 to 5 times as slow).
They only have to be run once, when the revision is saved. It's not likely to be a noticeable cost.