Doesn't having geographically located page caches reduce the doubling effect in any given location?
Squids located in the US should be caching more en-US than en-GB, and those in Europe should have more en-GB than en-US. Jared > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Gerard Meijssen > Sent: 12 September 2009 09:48 > To: Wikimedia developers > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Language variants > > Hoi, > When we are to do this for English and have digitise and > digitize, we have to keep in mind that this ONLY deals with > issues that are differences between GB and US English. There > are other varieties of English that may make this more complicated. > > Given the size of the GB and US populations it would split > the cache and effectively double the cache size. There are > more languages where this would provide serious benefits. I > can easily imagine that the German, Spanish and Portuguese > community would be interested.. Then there are many of the > "other" languages that may have an interest.. The first order > of business is not can it be done but who will implement and > maintain the language part of this. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/9/12 Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]> > > > Happy-melon wrote: > > >> Ilmari Karonen wrote: > > >> > > >>> -{af: {{GFDL/af}}; als: {{GFDL/als}}; an: {{GFDL/an}}; ar: > > >>> {{GFDL/ar}}; > > >>> ast: {{GFDL/ast}}; be: {{GFDL/be}}; be-tarask: > {{GFDL/be-tarask}}; > > >>> <!-- ...and so on for about 70 more languages -->}- > > > > > > The above begs the question, of course, would this switch > actually work? > > > And if it does, how does it affect the cache and > linktables? More > > > investigation needed, methinks.... > > > > Indeed, that was what I was wondering about too. Without actually > > trying it out, my guess would be that it would indeed work, but at a > > cost: it'd first parse all the 75 or so subtemplates and then throw > > all but one of them away. > > > > Of course, that's what one would have to do anyway, to get > full link > > table consistency. > > > > It does seem to me that it might not be *that* inefficient, > *if* the > > page were somehow cached in its pre-languageconverted state > but after > > the expensive template parsing has been done. Does such a cache > > actually exist, or, if not, could one be added with reasonable ease? > > > > -- > > Ilmari Karonen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
