https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21860
--- Comment #20 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2010-07-14 16:20:00 UTC --- (In reply to comment #19) > John Erling Blad's proposal to generate the checksums only when requested > should not significantly increase database load. In general, hashing > algorithms are O(n) (linear) in complexity (very fast, even for large text > chunks). The requested checksums could be cached to improve the performance, > but given the speed at which checksums (even the "heavy" ones) can be > generated, this benefit is likely to be small at best. I think you're overlooking the fact that Wikimedia wikis (like the English Wikipedia) are exceptional. For a normal MediaWiki installation, the database load would likely be negligible. I doubt the same is true for English Wikipedia database. It seems like a waste of resources to constantly re-compute hashes when it's trivial to store them. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
