On Apr 9, 2014 10:16 PM, "James Forrester" jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 9 April 2014 18:08, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Of course this thread isnt supposed to be about if its a good idea to increase the size, so far everyone is agreement on that front. The
issue
is whether doing so would kill swift due to a large increase in object
count
(or some other performance concern(?)) as has appearantly been
suggested.
Im not sure it would actually increase the object count that much, if
the
new size chosen was a multiple of the old (as was suggested on
wikipedia)
since that size will already probably be rendered for retina display.
Also
we added the whole retina display srcset feature without the world exploding, and i think that was orders of magnitude bigger change than
this
would be. Ill admit im not actually familar with what the performance issues are, and may have just said something totally irrelavent.
I can't see how enabling a size that's already enabled in production on
a
further wiki will significantly increase the object count, but removing
all
sizes except one will definitely reduce it. :-)
J.
Actually it wont because things only ever get deleted when somebody uploads a new version, deletes a file, or ?action=purge. Otherwise we keep thumbs forever.
--bawolff