Domas Mituzas <midom.lists <at> gmail.com> writes:
Anyway, we have to ensure, that most of wikis (at least top20 ones) have got ridden of curly braces and any other expensive parser stuff in these messages, as that costs them up to 10 milliseconds per pageview (if anyone writes a bot to do this automatically, I'd gladly run it with my global super duper privileges :)) :
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So what exactly should be avoided? FlaggedRevs has some messages that appear on most pageviews and transclude other messages (such as http://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Revreview-quick-none/en ), should those be substituted in too? What about constructs like {{PLURAL}} which don't require pulling the content of another message?