2011/4/11 Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
What we store in memcached is a serialized version of the preprocessor XML tree, keyed on the MD5 hash of the wikitext input, unless it's too small, like Platonides said. This means that if the exact same input is fed to the preprocessor twice, it will do part of the work only one and cache the intermediate result.
Yes, I implemented this with Tim's help to try to cut down on the CPU load caused by lots of Cite templates, IIRC. If I recall correctly, the performance benefit was not particularly substantial.
Ok, coming bac to my idea of building small "libraries of work-specific templates into a unique template" doesn't seems a particularly brilliant one; something that can be done only if templates merged into one are simple, and few, and only for contributor's comfort, if any. Thanks for your interest!
Alex