On 15/12/06, Edward Z. Yang edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com wrote:
This extension will murder performance. You cannot do the socket connection at runtime without incurring significant delays in page serving.
It's not a problem, since it's not like we'll ever use it on Wikimedia anyway. To be perfectly blunt about it; if other people want to install inefficient custom code on their wikis...well, it's their servers, their requirements, and their problem.
Rob Church