On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:59 AM, soxred93 <soxred93(a)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.