On 21/08/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
Because it would require a DB query with an execution time proportional to the number of articles in the category? Having categories with lots of members is fine, as long as we don't try to traverse them all the time.
That would be it. I couldn't find an effective method which Domas would agree with.
The efficient way to do it would be to enumerate the category members, saving the results to a table for later lookup. The entries in this special table could have an expiry time. Is that how you were planning on doing it?
I don't bother planning things any more. Having four months' worth of notes turn useless is not a fun experience.
More details? Enumerate them when, and save which results?
Rob Church