On 03/03/12 02:00, Yury Katkov wrote:
Hi everyone! I want to install php module php-fss on php5.3 since I heard that it boosts MediaWiki performance a lot. Is it possible to do that? Is it installed on wikipedias?
Prior to r82645, FSS was used in the wikitext parser for expanding tags like <nowiki> and <ref>. Installing FSS sped up this phase significantly. In MediaWiki 1.18 and later this is no longer the case, that part of the parser was rewritten to be fast whether or not FSS is installed.
There are still a few uses of FSS in MediaWiki and its extensions:
* Malayalam and Arabic character set normalisation * Chinese and Serbian variant conversion * Parsing edit section links (MWTidy) * Extensions: AbuseFilter, LiquidThreads, FCKeditor and Transliterator
You probably won't get enough of a performance benefit to make it worthwhile unless you are using one of the four content languages mentioned above or Transliterator.
The installation procedure is the same as any PHP extension, i.e.
phpize ./configure make sudo make install
-- Tim Starling