https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6455

--- Comment #136 from Happy-melon <[email protected]> 2011-11-17 
16:21:12 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #135)
> So why not simply scale down the limits after installing these functions?
> Existing string templates can be re-written as wrappers for using string
> functions, functionality wouldn't even be broken, we would have lower limits
> for whats possible using templates and functions but we would have more
> powerful and sane functions provided. They could be used in a sane way as they
> are being used right now with less load on the servers.

Template limits are not just hit using string functions, indeed they're not
even the major cause.  The citation templates used on a large article consume
much more of the template resources than string functions, as well as stupid
things like the innumerable {{SubatomicParticle}} calls (and their endless
subtemplates) on [[List of baryons]] etc.  Reducing the template limits would
break all these cases, and they're not scenarios which could be 'fixed' with
proper string functions.

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