On 23 August 2012 08:18, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazeland@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
But Lua is so fast compared to wikitext that our Lua developers will have to exercise a lot of creativity to find applications that will exceed the performance limits.
Famous words, kept in the archives forever :).
How they will know? Theres some way to get feedback about this, like "rendering time: 3.8 seconds".
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I read this mail-list for pure entertainment. I am trying to imagine what cool things lua will allow. But seems more a improvement of speed. Speed will allow cool things to happen. So is more like a indirect improvement (and probably a huge one). Speed is sexy but not much entertaining at first, seems a enabler.
So.. This is great news!, and herald of other awesome things to come :DDD