On 10/25/07, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
At [[Wikipedia talk:Reference desk#update]], someone
is claiming
that at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#any work on the
incredible sluggishness of deeply edited articles?]], someone
is claiming that the problem has nothing to do with page size
or template transclusion, but rather, with the length of an
article's history list. I don't believe this for a minute,
but if it's a rumor with legs I suppose we'll be hearing it
for a while...
It's possible that there's somewhere or other we're doing a scan of
the history of an article, but I'm aware of no such place, personally.
It certainly wouldn't affect page rendering.