On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Mark Christensen wrote:
A number of people are now working on stress testing this software before it is put into production. And I think there is a general commitment to solving the performance problem, and I see lots of movement in the right direction.
This is fine, but you are trying a new car, and I want you to mount a speedometer so we can monitor the speed while driving, continuously keeping an eye on the problem instead of making believe we can fix it once and for all. The timer that is included in an HTML comment could be appended to a log file, and then there would have to be a way to review that log file. We did discuss this before, and someone was guessing that appending a line to a file would take too much time, but I don't think anybody tested this. The append to file could be conditioned so only accesses that took more than 2 (or 5) seconds were logged.
And, needless to say, this needs to be done on all web pages, including the edits, diffs, and specials, and for all languages.