Tim Starling wrote:
On 12/01/11 05:34, Casey Brown wrote:
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Alex Brollo alex.brollo@gmail.com wrote:
I'm already using your suggestion, today I replaced a complex test template from our village pump (replacing it with a link to a subpage, visited by interested users only) and, really, the difference in rendering the page village pump page was obviuos.
That's good, but also keep in mind that, generally, you shouldn't worry too much about performance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PERF. (Had to throw in the little disclaimer here. ;-))
I've always been opposed to that policy.
As the person who implemented the expensive parser function count, I don't imagine anyone on this list finds your opposition surprising. I do find the view that users ought to be concerned about accidentally using too many {{#ifexist:}}s or {{PAGESIZE:}}s on a page (for example) to be a horrible approach to user experience, though.
MZMcBride