Domas Mituzas wrote:
>
> So, a checklist what can be done ( simple to complex )
>
> [ ] - Simplification of {{cite}}
Short of significant improvements to the parser or requireing people to
ask Domas before editing the template, I can
> [ ] - Separate cache for Cite, to avoid reparsing on minor edits,
> that don't involve citations. I have no idea how much this would win,
> but there is theoretical chance of stripping 1% or so. ;)
> [ ] - Offload some templates like {{cite}} to actual PHP extensions
> (can of worms, but, oh well, can be standardized process too)
I've actually considered something like this in the past, basically
creating a Cite 2.0 extension, where all the main cite options would be
in the <ref> tags themselves with pre-defined "templates" written in PHP
for web citations, book citations, etc.; this would greatly reduce the
amount of stuff that needs to be done using the Cite wiki-templates and
run through the parser.
You would have something like:
<ref author="Foo" title="Bar" type="book">Pages 1-10</ref>
Any parameters in the ref tag would be converted to HTML output using
the "book" template in the extension rather than a thousand parser
functions in some meta-template, and only the content of the tag (the
page numbers in this case) would have to be run through the parser, so
it would also be backwards-compatible with the current templates until
they can all be migrated.
The main downside to this is that it requires someone to file a Bugzilla
request every time a template needs changing.
> [ ] - Implement proper scripting engine like Lua for metatemplates
> (http://pecl.php.net/package/lua
> - another can of worms, though yet again, can be managed via trusted
> set of people, on top20 wikis or so).
> [ ] - Frustrated operations guy adding something like ( return ""; )
> in some random extension, and syncing the live hack. Obviously there
> would be some "HAHA YOU THOUGHT I COULDN'T DO THIS" comments in there.
>
> I for one can directly participate in at least two of these options. ;-)
>
> Unfortunately, {{cite}} is the only template I can profile/account for
> now, we don't have proper per-template profiling, but I wish to get
> one some day. Then we'd have more "war on ..." topics ;-D
>
> Generally, templates are major part of our parsing, and thats over 50%
> of our current cluster CPU load.
> As we've actually managed to hit 100% last week, something what hasn't
> happened for a while, some of work has to be done here.
>
> Of course, new hardware will help for a while, but I for one have huge
> personal satisfaction saving donation money. ;-)
>
> CHEERS!
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Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)
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