On 11/25/07, aaron@svn.wikimedia.org aaron@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:

•   /**
  

•    * As we use the same small set of messages in various methods and that
  

•    * they are called often, we call them once and save them in $this->message
  

•    */
  

•   function preCacheMessages() {
  

•           // Precache various messages
  

•           if( !isset( $this->message ) ) {
  

•                   $this->message['last'] = wfMsgExt( 'last', array( 'escape') );
  

•           }
  

•   }
  

As a general remark (I've seen this technique in more than one special page's code), do we really need this? Doesn't MessageCache handle local message caching anyway?