[Wikipedia-l] what's being done about performance?

[Stephen Gilbert]

I don't see how anyone can say that performance issues
are being ignored. Jimbo bought a new server
specifically for Wikipedia. Mr. Crocker re-designed
the PHP script from the ground up, and Neil has been
running different kinds of bots on the news
server/software to test it under stressful conditions.

Don't you guys read the mailing list? :)

-- Stephen Gilbert

--- Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> At 02:29 AM 7/13/02 -0700, maveric149 wrote:
> >Much is now being done to remedy performance
> problems -- so I do believe
> what 
> >you said is needlessly rude (even if there is a
> grain of truth to it). 
> 
> My experience with coders has been in MUDs. Coders
> like to make new areas,
> tweak races and guilds, etc. Performance issues are
> not nearly as
> attractive nor is success in dealing with them
> easily attainable or
> recognizable to others. Like a MUD we are relying on
> voluntary coders so,
> sure, courtesy is necessary.
> 
> But so is focus. Right now Wikipedia is like some
> Ionesco play with a dead
> body in the room that everyone inexplicably ignores.
> 
> Fred Bauder
> 
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